The head of Institutional Communication of the Lazio Region, Marcello De Angelis, resigned from his position. De Angelis communicated his irrevocable decision to the president of the Lazio Region Francesco Rocca with a letter, after having anticipated it during a private interview. President Rocca accepted the resignation of Marcello De Angelis with immediate effect.
In early August De Angelis had ended up at the center of controversy for a post on the Bologna massacre in which he declared Mambro, Fioravanti and Ciavardini innocent. The leader, with a past in the extreme right, had then returned to the limelight also because of the anti-Semitic content of one of his songs, written years ago as the frontman of a group of rock identitarian. Controversy also for a post on Instagram last December, in which a terracotta candelabrum was seen attributable to the Nazi criminal Himmler and the SS. On Friday, an extraordinary regional council was scheduled on him.
Rocca expressed "gratitude for having protected" the Region from the "unacceptable exploitation of these weeks, paying the price for a song written 45 years ago and with respect to which he publicly expressed all his embarrassment and horror".
"I claim the right to doubt and dissent even though I cannot deny that I expressed myself inappropriately and for this I apologized," De Angelis said in his resignation letter. "The monstrous mud machine - he says - can crush anyone and has targeted me by pillorying me in my life".
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