Rome's Jewish community on Monday
described Fascist salutes at a ceremony Sunday marking the 46th
anniversary of the deaths of three neofascist youths allegedly
due to far left militants at the neoFascist Italian Social
Movement's then HQ in Via Acca Larentia as "an unacceptable
outrage".
"The Roman salute is an unacceptable insult and outrage,
particularly to the memory of all the victims of Nazi-fascism,"
said the president of the Jewish community of Rome, Victor
Fadlun.
"For us Jews in Rome, that gesture, because of its symbolic
value, is like pouring salt on our wounds, it signifies mourning
and suffering that is renewed through the generations.
"It is nonsense to believe that it can be an appropriate tribute
to a commemoration".
Meanwhile Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI)
party, an heir to the MSI, accused the centre-left Democratic
Party (PD) of "hypocrisy" in condemning the latest salutes after
not doing anything to stop them at the annual ceremonies that
have been held every year since the January 7, 1978 events.
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