Members of Giorgia Meloni's right
wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Monday called for the
removal or resignation of a museum chief in Puglia after he
posted a photo showing the premier upside down.
Ostuni museum president Luca Dell'Atti came under fire from
local, regional and national party representatives for the
Instagram story that also included references to the Foibe, the
mass killings by Yugoslav Partisans of Italians living in the
area that stretches from the Trieste zone in Italy's Friuli
Venezia Giulia region across the Istrian peninsula to Dalmatia
in Croatia during and immediately after WWII, and controversy
over the appeal made on Saturday evening by a Sanremo Song
Festival contestant to "stop the genocide" in the Middle East.
FdI provincial coordinator and regional councillor Luigi Caroli
described the gesture as "shameful" and "unprecedented
seriousness".
"The mayor of Ostuni and the administration must immediately
revoke the position given recently to the person that published
that photo," he continued, insisting that "whoever decides to
take up a role must do so in a balanced and serene manner with
respect for the institutions".
Justice Undersecretary and FdI lawmaker Andrea Delmastro also
weighed in, calling on the centre-left opposition to take a
stand.
"Will the Left break the wall of silence this time? Will they
demand the resignation of a person whose profile is evidently
more suited to frequenting the Askatasuna social centre than to
directing a municipal museum? Or in Brindisi, as in Turin, will
the Left sanctify those who propose violence as a method of
political struggle?," Delmastro said in a statement.
Meloni on Saturday blasted decades of "unforgivable" silence
about the Foibe as she took part in a ceremony on the national
day of remembrance for the thousands of Italians tortured or
killed by Yugoslav communists in anti-Fascist uprisings during
the last two years of the war.
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