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Italy: the elected president of the Senate threatened by an "antifa" group

2022-10-15T16:59:57.199Z


"We will be happy to show him and parliament the meaning of militant anti-fascism," the group "Cambiare rotta" said after unfurling a hostile banner near the Colosseum.


" Antifa

" activists

threatened the new president of the Italian Senate, Ignazio La Russa, in a banner deployed near the Colosseum and on a permanence of the Fratelli d'Italia party in Rome, arousing unanimous condemnation from the political class on Saturday.

Welcome, President La Russa.

The resistance continues

”, could we read Friday evening on the banner signed by the small group “

Cambiare rotta

” (Change course), quickly taken down by the police.

On its Facebook page, the group added: "

We will be delighted to show him and parliament the meaning of militant anti-fascism

."

In the Roman district of Garbatella where Giorgia Meloni grew up, probable future Prime Minister and who created the post-fascist party Fratelli d'Italia at the end of 2012 with Ignazio La Russa, the iron curtain of a party office has been tagged "

La Russa, Garbatella hates you

", and signed Antifa next to a five-pointed star.

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This drawing may evoke the emblem of the far-left armed group Les Brigades Rouges which committed numerous assassinations in the 1970s, including that of the statesman Aldo Moro in 1978. During these same "

years of lead

" , neo-fascist militants carried out assassinations and bombings that left hundreds dead.

Two controversial elections in two days

Giorgia Meloni denounced “

a reference to tragic years that we no longer want to relive.

Our commitment is to unite the nation, not divide

it,” she said on Twitter on Saturday.

In opposition, the leader of the Democratic Party (PD, cente gauche) group castigated “

a vile act

” while the person concerned “

thanked the political forces who expressed their solidarity

”.

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The election Thursday of Ignazio La Russa, collector of busts and other medals bearing the likeness of Benito Mussolini, caused a lively controversy, especially as it was followed Friday by the election for the presidency of the chamber deputies of an ultra-conservative Catholic, Lorenzo Fontana, member of the League of Matteo Salvini.

Meloni says they want to unite the country, not divide it.

And they elected La Russa and Fontana.

What would it have been like if they had wanted to split

it,” Democrat MP Andrea Orlando quipped on Twitter.

The number 2 of the PD, Peppe Provenzano, condemned him "

a contest of extremism

".

Deep divisions on the right

Meanwhile, the right-wing coalition of Fratelli d'Italia, the League and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia is showing its deep divisions over the formation of the government.

Giorgia Meloni is opposed in particular to the appointment of certain personalities proposed by Silvio Berlusconi, whose senators mostly failed during the election of Ignazio La Russa in order to put pressure on her.

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Television images seized the Senate with handwritten notes from the tycoon about Giorgia Meloni, whom he describes in particular as "

arrogant and dogmatic

".

Giorgia Meloni replied, as if to say that she would not give in on the allocation of portfolios: “

I am insensitive to blackmail

”.

Harmony will come back

”, however assured Matteo Salvini on Saturday.

Source: lefigaro

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