On Monday, regarding the celebration of Mussolini’s March at his birthplace of Predappio in Romagna, Premier Giorgia Meloni said:
“It is politically something distant from me in a very significant way.”
Meloni, Italy’s first woman premier, has condemned fascism, and its “ignominious” Jewish laws as the low point of Italian history, and has said that her rightwing Fratelli D’Italia (FdI) party more closely aligns with Republicans in the USA and Britain’s Tories.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Monday, when asked why the police had not intervened to stop the commemoration of the black shirts’ coup d’etat that brought Fascism to power 100 years ago, that it “has been happening for years” and is thus different from a rave party at Modena that was broken up by the police.
He said the Modena rave and the Predappio rally “are completely different things, Predappio is an event that has been happening for many years, it’s something different.”
At the October 30 ‘nostalgic’ rally at Mussolini’s birthplace, Fascist salutes, fezes and the movement song ‘Faccetta Nera’ were all ubiquitous.
Piantedosi added, regarding government crackdowns on the raves and not the rally:
“Predappio is run according to the norms of public order.”
