Hundreds of far-right group members
including the neo-Fascist CasaPound group made Fascist salutes
at a ceremony in the southern Rome street of Acca Larentia
marking the anniversary of the 1978 murder of two neofascist
youths allegedly by far-left militants and the fatal shooting,
possibly by police, of a third neofascist youth.
In the massacre on January 7, 1978, two members of nefascist
party Italian Social Movement MSI's youth
wing Fronte della Gioventù, Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco
Ciavatta, aged 18 and 19, were shot dead, allegedly by far left
militants, outside the party's Rome headquarters in the street
named after a Roman goddess.
A third MSI youth wing member, Stefano Recchioni, 19, was
fatally injured by a stray bullet during ensuing clashes by
members of the Fronte della Gioventù who rioted after the
deaths, and police.
The Italian right, led by Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of
Italy (FdI) party, which has roots in the MSI, has claimed no
effort was ever made to find the
alleged shooters, as allegedly in a number of other cases
involving far-right victims.
FdI Deputy House Whip Fabio Rampelli called for a parliamentary
commission of inquiry into terrorism.
Centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) Senate Whip
Maurizio Gasparri, a former MSI member, said "the inertia of the
Rome prosecutors is the real disgrace on the Acca Larentia
massacre", saying Skorpion machine guns traced to other leftist
extremist murders had never been used to find the Acca Larentia
alleged murderers.
Neofascists attend the Acca Larentia ceremony every year,
calling out "present and correct" and making the Fascist salute,
sometimes leading to criminal proceedings which have usually
ended with acquittals.
A passer-by on Tuesday shouted "Long live the Resistance" and
had his details taken by police.
Green leader Angelo Bonelli said "Fascst symbols are tolerated
but not someone shouting long live the Resistance".
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