https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-fascist-salute-rome-rally-acca-larentia-killings-giorgia-meloni-rcna132992
Outrage in Italy after hundreds give fascist salute at a rally in Rome
A video circulating online shows hundreds of people making the banned salute at an event Sunday commemorating the killing of three neo-fascist youths in the Italian capital in 1978.
The Acca Larentia killings, as they’re known, are marked annually, but this year’s public display and an apparent lack of police intervention has prompted criticism from opposition lawmakers.
The people in the video stand in at least a dozen rows and, when prompted by a voice shouting outside the frame, raise their right arms in a salute that dates to the regime of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator.
They appear to shout “present” three times in unison in response to someone yelling: “For all fallen comrades,” a typical rallying cry at neo-fascist events, according to a Reuters translation.
Under Italy’s post-World War II legislation, use of fascist symbolism, including the straight-armed salute, is banned.
The rally was held in front of the former headquarters of a post-war neo-fascist party called the Italian Social Movement (MSI), which gave root to the Brothers of Italy party now led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni came to power in 2022 as Italy’s first female prime minister at the head of a coalition, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War II. She praised Mussolini in her youth but has since changed her stance and said there was “no space” in her party “for nostalgia for fascism, racism or antisemitism.”
Watch the video. This is chilling. There's this cold solemnity as the crowd raises the Nazi salute in honor of their fallen Neo-Nazi comrades.
This happened in front the headquarters of a former Neo-Nazi party that merged into a new one....the same one Italy's current Prime Minister is from.
Frightening times.
@vivify saidI hate Roman nazis.
Watch the video. This is chilling. There's this cold solemnity as the crowd raises the Nazi salute in honor of their fallen Neo-Nazi comrades.
This happened in front the headquarters of a former Neo-Nazi party that merged into a new one....the same one Italy's current Prime Minister is from.
Frightening times.
@shavixmir saidThey built some cracking roads though and they knew how to throw a party
I hate Roman nazis.
@vivify saidIt’s worth remembering that the Italians did fascism first and the Italian fascists have been ebbing and flowing ever since. Couple that with being on the frontline of migration to Europe and it’s hardly surprising that they are on an up cycle just now.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-fascist-salute-rome-rally-acca-larentia-killings-giorgia-meloni-rcna132992Outrage in Italy after hundreds give fascist salute at a rally in Rome
A video circulating online shows hundreds of people making the banned salute at an event Sunday commemorating the kill ...[text shortened]... said there was “no space” in her party “for nostalgia for fascism, racism or antisemitism.”
@shavixmir saidThe Romans as in Caligula, the Nazis were all about railway time tables but they were both good road builders I suppose 🤔
The Romans or the Nazis?
@kevcvs57 saidAutobahn
The Romans as in Caligula, the Nazis were all about railway time tables but they were both good road builders I suppose 🤔