Meloni was initially defensive in response to an undercover exposé by leftwing new website Fanpage that caught some members of her party’s youth wing voicing antisemitic, neofascist and neonazi sentiments.
Segre, 93, said Meloni had eventually understood she was wrong to initially “give the impression that she wanted to cover up the rot” within National Youth (GN).
Meloni gave this impression by branding Fanpage’s methods as “regime-like”.
Segre told the German daily, “I am very happy that our prime minister has finally decided to intervene”.
“I think that she as a person, even a very intelligent one, has recognised that her first reaction was completely wrong.”
“She realised that by being indignant about the journalistic enquiry itself and not about the rot that had been uncovered, she had given the impression that she preferred to keep it all secret and not touch it.”
Meloni eventually branded the allegedly antisemitic GN members as being “incompatible” with her party and reiterated that there was no room within it for those who are nostalgic for Fascism.
Fanpage recorded some GN members chanting Duce and Sieg Heil and hailing far right terrorists.
Others were recorded mocking a Jewish Senator of their own party and voiced the hope that centre-left Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein, who has Jewish roots, would be impaled.
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