A company in the Verona area has produced masks with the effigy of Benito Mussolini and the writing "Walk, build and, if necessary, fight and win!", One of the declarations of the Duce.
On social media, the case immediately broke out with criticisms and comments, even if positive opinions on the initiative were not lacking. Other similar products, however, are available for sale online on a site dedicated to Mussolini's merchandising.
"Among the many things that can happen in a pandemic, that of selling masks for individual protection with the effigy of the fascist leader is the most unpleasant of all - denounces the senator of the Democratic Party Vincenzo D'Arienzo -. Those who market that product praise to fascism and favors its apology. A deplorable fact to be firmly condemned ".
For the Democratic exponent, "on the one hand there is the emergency and the need to protect human life and on the other, taking advantage of this, there is the spasmodic search for profit using political propaganda with a murderer who has the virus of race and intolerance towards others has been injected into the country. A massive dose of ignorance that Verona could do without concludes - and which I hope will ask those who are muddying its name once again. "
"Masks with the face of #Mussolini. The city cannot continue to be dishonored by the fascists. Does anyone think to intervene?". Alessia Rotta , deputy of the Democratic Party, writes it on twitter .
"Once again because of a few disrespectful the image of Verona is damaged: it is intolerable that in the city Gold Medal for the Resistance circulate masks with the effigy of Mussolini, responsible for racial laws, of the massacre of thousands of Italians in a war alongside Hitler and the destruction of our country ". This was stated by the Veronese deputy, Diego Zardini. "I ask the Prefect and the judicial authority to immediately seize these horror gadgets and to denounce the manufacturer for fascist apology - he concludes -. In this delicate moment we need everything, except to give visibility to imbeciles who know nothing about Verona and its history ".
