“Rubbish”. The video investigation by Fanpage on Gioventù nazionale, the youth movement of Fratelli d’Italia accused of racism and anti-Semitism (two activists resigned) has become a case in terms of merit and method. “From a regime”, according to Prime Minister Meloni, with Giovanni Donzelli accusing the site of “telling lies”: “We are not aware that other political groups, previously affected by their investigations, have been given the same treatment. No one else has been spied on in a similar manner for months and months by a person who hid behind false personal details and who deceived the trust of minors and twenty-year-olds”.
Guest of Lilli Gruber on Otto e mezzo, on La7, Italo Bocchino was even harsher and more explicit: «First of all I say that I don’t agree with the gestures revealed by the Fanpage investigation and those guys must be chased away. I also say that infiltrating minors is certainly not a good thing. And for this type of journalism it is garbage journalism. It’s my opinion but I think so.” In connection there is Francesco Cancellato himself, who is the director of Fanpage.
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The debate, already heated, derails when he puts another type of accusation against the young Melonians: the gladiatorial salute. “They have the habit of using this type of greeting”, Cancellato says, provoking an irritated reaction from Bocchino. “But excuse me, it’s not forbidden, I would never use it because I shake hands. But excuse me, explain to me, what do you care? And above all, what bothers you?”
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There is also Lucio Caracciolo, who confirms that the gladiatorial salute has nothing to do with the Duce, unlike the more famous Roman salute: «It existed before fascism». And Bocchino exults: «Luckily there is Caracciolo, it would make you want to sing…».
