Roman greetings, 11 sentences in Milan

(ANSA) - MILAN, FEBRUARY 14 - All sentenced to one month and 10 days and a fine of 200 euros for apology of fascism on the basis of the Mancino law which punishes hate crimes and racial discrimination. It is with this sentence that the Corted'Appello of Milan overturned the first instance verdict in which 11 far-right exponents had been acquitted who responded to the "call of the present" with Roman greetings at the Monumental cemetery, on March 23, 2017, where they were commemorating the fallen of the "fascist revolution" of 1919 and the foundation of the "combat bundles".
The initiative was promoted by the association 'combattenti del Rsi'. The Tribunal acquitted them explaining that in those gestures there was no "real danger of reconstitution of the Fascist Party". In the prosecutor's appeal, discussed by the deputy pg Daniela Meliota in front of the college chaired by Giovanni Ichino, it is explained, however, that that rite "increases for the solemnity of the context" the "danger of attraction and diffusion" of "discriminatory" ideas.