Calls multiplied Monday in Italy to ban the ultra-right group Forza Nuova, implicated after the violent demonstrations against the health pass Saturday in Rome. Several hundred people opposed the police in central Rome on Saturday evening, devastating, among other things, the headquarters of the CGIL (left), the country's main trade union confederation. The assault came after a demonstration against the obligation, from October 15, of the health pass in all workplaces. Among those arrested were officials of this movement.
On Monday, political figures from all sides condemned the violence, the Democratic Party (PD, center-left) and the Five Star Movement (M5S, anti-system), members of the ruling coalition, signing a motion in parliament to call for the dissolution of Forza Nuova.
An investigation for "incitement to violence"
At the same time, the movement's website was closed by the courts as part of an investigation for "incitement to violence".
For PD chief Enrico Letta, former head of government, the events of Saturday are comparable to the storming of the US Capitol in Washington by supporters of Donald Trump.
“Neo-fascist groups have tried to use the delicate situation (linked to the coronavirus, editor's note) to engage in acts of insurgency.
It is neither more nor less than what happened in the United States on January 6, ”he declared.
Forza Nuova is an ultra-right neo-fascist party created in 1997 whose program includes, among other things, the ban on abortion, the cessation of immigration or the repeal of laws punishing incitement to hatred. for political, racial or religious reasons.
Its current leader, Roberto Fiore, 62, father of eleven children, was convicted in the 1980s of a subversive crime and of founding an armed political movement of the far right.
In the various ballots in which he stood, alone or in coalition with other ultra-right groups, he never reached 0.5% of the vote.
At the national level, the far-right parties lead the polls, in particular La Ligue by Matteo Salvini and Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) by Giorgia Meloni.
Matteo Salvini said on Monday that La Ligue would not sign the parliamentary motion, while for Giorgia Meloni the government already has the necessary powers to dissolve the targeted groups.