Centre-right Forza Italia MEP
and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini Alessandra Mussolini
nearly came to blows with centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
Macerata Mayor Romano Carancini after visiting the Marche city
two days after an anti-Fascist group put up a pinata puppet of
Il Duce resembling his hanging by the feet in a Milan square
after he was shot by Italian partisans in 1944, and urged
children to smash it to get sweets on Liberation Day.
Mussolini said the pinata was a "disgrace, an obscene act"
and demanded the mayor apologise to the city and withdraw the
mandate of a councillor.
"You should be ashamed," replied Carancini.
Mussolini said Macerata, which saw a neo-Nazi shoot four
African migrants February 4 after a Roman woman was found
chopped up in two suitcases at the end of January, was "a city
that is a theatre of violence that must leave more space for
democracy, for uniting people.
"A puppet was hung head down! What message does that send?".
Mussolini urged Italian President Sergio Mattarella to "say
something" about the incident.
Fascist dictator Mussolini was hanged by the feet with his
mistress Claretta Petacci and other Fascist high-ups in Milan's
Piazzale Loreto, and a mob smashed his head in.
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