Roman greetings, insults to the partisans and songs praising fascism. Throughout Italy, even on April 25th, there was no shortage of nostalgic moments. Starting from Varese, where the Do.Ra, a neo-Nazi group, paid homage (THE VIDEO) “to the comrades killed by the enemy while fighting for their homeland” as their leader Alessandro Limido explained.
The Roman salute at the cemetery
Early in the morning the militants of the Community of the Twelve Rays went to the Ganna cemetery and then reached that of Sant’Ambrogio in Varese where the family member of a “comrade killed by the communists without trial” was waiting for them. “These guys died for us, for our values. Our fallen are the heroes of the homeland. To protect us they accepted their holocaust” added Limido, underlining that “it was not a demonstration. We went to visit our dead and this cannot be prohibited.” But the reaction of the Municipality of Varese was immediate and it will report the militants for “failure to comply with administrative measures as well as for other possible crimes”.
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The other episodes in Italy
In Rome, however, the writing in red paint ‘Partisan rapist murderer’ appeared on the tombstone for 25 April in Forte Bravetta. “This is how our Liberation Day begins – said Elio Tomassetti, president of the Roma XII Municipality and Daniela Cirulli, president of Anpi XII -. The fascists, after all, never change. This gesture demonstrates the relevance of the anti-fascist struggle”. Controversy also in Reggio Emilia over the statements of the centre-right mayoral candidate Giovanni Tarquini who wrote on Facebook that the Constitution, “written following a hateful and violent foreign occupation of our country, starts from the firm rejection of any form of totalitarianism and discrimination”. Words that triggered the reaction of the Democratic Party, starting from the dem mayoral candidate Marco Massari: “Omitting the word fascism in a text or refusing to define oneself as anti-fascist does not make that historical period disappear”. In Turin during the night, the militants of the far-right movement ‘La Barriera’ hung a banner with the phrase: ”April 25th: remember the crimes of the partisans”, later explaining in a note that the partisans “were guilty of numerous infamous crimes and violence, much of which occurred against women and civilians, especially in our city.” Another neo-fascist ‘incursion’ was finally carried out in Taranto, where the memorial stone of the partisan Pietro Pandiani, hero of the Resistance, silver medal for military valor, was defaced with a Celtic cross imprinted with black paint right on the word ‘partisan’ ‘.
