The former leader of the neo-Fascist
Forza Nuova (New Force, FN) party Giuliano Castellino on
Wednesday lamented being barred from the Lower House where he
was slated to present his new political project.
Castellino, 46, had been invited by Sud Chiama Nord (South Calls
North) MP Francesco Gallo to hold a press conference in the
House press room to present his new Italia Libera (Free Italy)
project, but Gallo withdrew the invitation at the last minute
after a row flared up.
Castellino, curremntly on trial along with FN leader Roberto
Fiore for an assault on the Rome HQ of leftwing union federation
CGIL last year, protested to police and reporters after being
halted at the police barriers outside the parliament building of
Montecitorio.
"This is not democracy," he complained.
A Rome judge in July handed down the first six guilty verdicts
in the assault on the headquarters of Italy's biggest and most
leftwing union CGIL in Rome in
October last year.
The attack was led by members of far-right group Forza Nuova who
hijacked a protest against the COVID-19 Green Pass health
certificate to ransack the union offices.
A preliminary hearings judge gave out sentences ranging from six
years to four and a half years.
The son of the girlfriend of FN's Rome chief Castellino, Fabio
Corradetti, and the group's Palermo leader Massimiliano Ursino,
both got six years.
Castellino is also a defendant in the case, as is FN national
leader Fiore
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