Posted 1/8/2024, 5:51:00 PM
Concerns Over Fascist Nostalgia in Italy After Event Commemorating Neofascists
- Video shows hundreds of men making fascist salutes at event commemorating killing of 3 neofascist militants in 1978 in Rome
- Opposition leaders condemn event and call on Meloni's rightwing government to ban neofascist groups
- Event held outside former headquarters of Italian Social Movement, a neofascist party that morphed into Meloni's Brothers of Italy party
- Constitution bans fascist ideology and propaganda, but commemoration permitted by authorities
- Concerns that fascist nostalgia being unleashed under Meloni's government given past comments and actions of some party members