Rome prosecutors have opened a probe
into several threatening messages directed at new Senate Speaker
Ignazio La Russa, a member of the right-wing Brothers of Italy
(FdI) party, that have appeared in Rome over the last few days.
A banner hung near the Colosseum welcomed La Russa to the
position, writing his name upside down, a possible reference to
how Benito Mussolini was hung upside down in Milan's Piazzale
Loreto after being executed.
Graffiti on the shutters of FdI's offices in the Garbatella
district of the capital declared that the quarter was
"disgusted" by La Russa and featured a five-pointed star similar
to that of the Red Brigades terrorist group.
Graffiti on the remains of Aqua Alexandrina aqueduct declared:
"La Russa boia speriamo che tu muoia" (La Russa scum, we hope
you die).
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