Four questions about the young people of Fratelli d’Italia that Giorgia Meloni must answer

Absolute silence.

Unlike the crossfire we had to defend ourselves against when Lobby Nera came out, in the face of Fanpage.it’s investigation into Gioventù Nazionale, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia Giorgia Meloni, its colonels and its media armed forces have chosen to bury their heads in the sand. On this occasion, unlike what happened then, no requests to hand over all the footage as if it were not our property, no bizarre accusations of artificial editing and no trials held in absentia in the talk show arenas, where those who accused us were only invited.

We limit ourselves to recording it, aware that we are not the ones who have to decide how a Prime Minister should respond to a video in which it is shown how the youth of the party of which she is leader appears to be in all respects a far-right extremist factoryin whose venues concerts of identity music are celebrated, neo-fascist texts are consumed and community camps are organized in which praises Hitler and Mussolini.

It’s none of our business, but that doesn’t stop us, with a cool head, from at least lining up four key questions that Giorgia Meloni should answerif we lived in a country where the head of government holds press conferences and even gives interviews to newspapers that don’t just ask her if she prefers panettone or pandoro.

One. Was Meloni aware?

The first question is the most obvious: Was Giorgia Meloni aware of all this? That her “wonderful” boys – those who campaigned for her and Nicola Procaccini in the heart of Rome during the last European elections – prefer to write “Duce” rather than “Giorgia” on the ballot paper? Or that they organize food drives where the food doesn’t end up being fed to the “niggers”? Or that they make an apology for Francesca Mambro, Giusva Fioravanti and the black terrorism of the 70s?

Two. Who supervised National Youth?

Let’s imagine the answer is no. But then – second question – What does Giorgia Meloni think of her parliamentarians and party leaders such as the Honorable Perissa and Trancassiniwho frequented those circles several times without “noticing” anything, busy as they were exchanging gladiatorial greetings and declaring, as his sister did Ariannathat the Pincian section of National Youth, the one led by Flaminia Pace, “represents what we are”? There is nothing to complain about the fact that the colonels to whom he entrusted the party did not realize that one of the most important training schools of the party – let’s not kid ourselves: this is a youth school in the heart of Rome – was organizing the nightly hanging of stickers with the fasces praising the Tithe Mas?

Three. What do you think of the gladiatorial salute between parliamentarians?

Third question, regarding gladiatorial greetings: does Giorgia Meloni find it normal for parliamentarians of her party to greet each other with a shake of the forearm which has always been the sign of mutual recognition of neo-fascist militants? Because without any folklore, let’s not beat around the bush, this is what we are talking about when we talk about the gladiatorial salute. Is it normal, according to the prime minister, that that greeting – rigorously flaunted with cameras off and journalists far away – is standard practice for several parliamentarians of a modern conservative and Atlanticist force?

Four. What does he intend to do?

Fourth and final question: what does Giorgia Meloni intend to do? Continue to pretend to be dead until the attention wanes, hoping that ten million Italians – more or less those who saw the Fanpage investigation, in the complicit silence of the news programs which chose not to dedicate half a minute to it – will forget everything? Or to face, as we suggested doing after the Black Lobby, the enormous, full-blown compromises of the Brothers of Italy with neo-fascist ideologies? We still hope he wants to do it anyway, with the lights off, to really prevent his party from becoming a training school for young fascists, as it seems to have been until now.

Unless, of course, this is not what he wants.
That is not part of the strategy.