"We must go on with the battle cry that is always the same: Executioner who gives up".
Thus the outgoing mayor of Rieti Antonio Cicchetti during an electoral initiative by the candidate for the center-right at the next administrative offices Daniele Sinibaldi (Dfi).
The mayor's sentence, supported by a center-right coalition, is immortalized in a video.
Cicchetti, former leader of the Youth Front and militant of the MSI for which he was elected mayor of Rieti.
He was also twice regional councilor.
"The fascist motto of the 'executioner who gives up' offends the values of the Constitution. Only a few days ago at Porta San Paolo I recalled on the occasion of April 25 the heroic resistance conducted by the Sabine people on Monte Tancia. Today the Mayor Cicchetti brings back the hands of history and offends the citizens of Rieti ", said the councilor for health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D'Amato.
"An unacceptable sentence, obviously not accidental, which recalls the darkest pages in the history of the country", said Andrea De Maria, deputy for the Democratic Party and Secretary of the Presidency of the Chamber.
"I hope that all political forces, including the center-right, will now speak clearly. Our democracy, which should really be a common heritage, was born from the anti-fascist resistance and had to deal with the threat of neo-fascism for a long season. this ground there must be no ambiguity ".
"It is truly disconcerting to hear these phrases again in 2022, phrases that do not honor either the city of Rieti or its citizens. Cicchetti, who evidently considers it useful to exhibit a crumbling cultural background and widely condemned by history, after leaving public institutions could try a career in the show. If we continue like this, Putin will come to denazify us ": thus the deputy dem Emanuele Fiano, of the presidency of the Pd Group in the Chamber.
