Italy on Monday remembered Sergio
Ramelli, a 19-year-old neofascist militant who died in hospital
on April 29, 1975 after being bludgeoned with a monkey wrench by
eight far left militants on March 13 that year in one of the
most serious acts of political street gang violence that
accompanied the 'Years of Lead' of rightist and leftist terror
from the late 1960 to the early 1980s.
Ramelli, a member of the youth wing of the neo-fascist Italian
Social Movement (MSI), was targeted by Workers Vanguard after
his high-school teacher highlighted his unorthodox views of
Communism.
On the first anniversary of his death, on April 29, 1976, a
50-year-old MSI Milanese provincial chief and lawyer, Enrico
Pedenovi, was murdered by members of the far left First Line
group.
Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa, a bigwig in Premier Giorgia
Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, which descends from the
MSI, and Milan's centre-left Democratic Party (PD) Mayor
Giuseppe Sala, were among those commemorating Ramelli like every
year on Friday, with Sala laying a wreath outside the building
where the teenager died.
La Russa, who recently said he had given away his bust of
Mussolini, chided Sala for not wearing his tricolour mayor's
sash, a mark of civic officialdom.
Sala said he never wore it, not even for ceremonies remembering
leftist youths who had been killed by neofascists.
photo: Ramelli and Pedenovi
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