2024-01-08 16:09:48
A black tide of arms raised. Hundreds of people stand at attention and, three times, respond in unison with the Roman salute and the shout of “present” for “all fallen comrades.” It happened this Sunday in Rome, in the Tuscolano neighborhood. Like every January 7, groups from the nebula of the Roman extreme right gathered on Acca Larenzia Street to commemorate in front of the palace that was the headquarters of the Italian Social Movement the murder in 1978 of two militants from the youth section of the party – and of another who died hours later in the riots with the police—in one of the episodes of the Plomo years that continues to generate divisions and controversies. This year it has done so even more because of the size of the demonstration and because the fascist staging appeared shortly after the institutional commemoration in which, among others, the president of the Lazio Region, Francesco Rocca—of the Brothers of Italy—participated. , the party of the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni— and the Minister of Culture of the City Council of Rome, governed by the Democratic Party, Miguel Gotor.
Rome, Italy, 2024.
State shame. #AccaLarentia pic.twitter.com/yR7VtvmfVR— Paolo Berizzi (@PBerizzi) January 7, 2024
“Rome, January 7, 2024. And it seems like 1924”, the leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, wrote on her social networks: announcing that this Monday he will present a parliamentary question to the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi. “What has happened is unacceptable. “Neofascist organizations have to be dissolved, as the Constitution says.” In recent hours, many have remembered the police intervention at the season premiere of the Teatro della Scala, last October, when the officers identified a man who had shouted “Long live anti-fascist Italy.” “Has the crime of apologizing for fascism been abolished? Were the police operational yesterday? “How many have you stopped?” wrote the Italia Viva deputy, Davide Faraone, on X, the old Twitter. “It is an unacceptable shame in a European democracy,” wrote Action leader Carlo Calenda.
The deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, has also intervened in the controversy. “We are a force that is certainly not fascist, we are anti-fascist,” he said. “Those who have behaved like this must certainly be condemned by everyone, just as all manifestations of support for dictatorships must be condemned. There is a law, it is established that no apology for fascism can be made in our country.”
The vice president of the Chamber, Fabio Rampelli, who was the mentor of Giorgia Meloni, in the youth section of the MSI, participated in the institutional commemoration. On his social networks he published a poster commemorating the murder and wrote: “The system wanted the fierce clash between innocent boys, it needed violence to create panic and create consensus on the fear of civil war, despite the stench that emanated, the corruption, of moral decadence, of the continuous betrayal of the nation. An endless game of crossed revenge called for more blood, but then came the oath: the only reason that could remotely give meaning to the death of a twenty-year-old boy was victory. And we desperately set out to build it. First they ignored us, then they mocked us, they fought us. Then we won. For you and for Italy.”
The controversy comes in already turbulent days for the formation that leads the Government, after, at a New Year’s Eve party in which the Secretary of State, Andrea Dalmastro, also participated, a man was injured by the shot fired from the pistol. of the Brothers of Italy deputy, Emanuele Pozzolo, for whom Meloni has requested the suspension of the party.
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