The gathering was to mark the anniversary of the 1978 murder of two neo-fascist youths and was attended by over 1000 members of far-right groups including the neo-Fascist CasaPound.
Prosecutors are waiting for the official reports to be delivered by the Digos anti-terror police and Carabinieri officials regarding the demonstration during which hundreds of far-right activists made fascist salute, the sources said.
State attorneys will open an investigation for the alleged violation of the 1993 anti-fascist Mancino law.
The law is named after then-Interior Minister Nicola Mancino and permits the prosecution of individuals for “incitement to violence” for a broad range of hate crimes.
Attendants may also be prosecuted under the 1952 Scelba Law against apology for fascism and attempting to restore the Fascist Party.
On December 18 last year, the State attorney’s office in Rome closed an investigation into another demonstration staged on January 7 last year by far-right militants who also made fascist salutes.
Thirty-one people identified during that commemoration risk indictment for violating the Mancino and Scelba laws.
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