A photo of a dictator accompanied by a text extolling his force-taking a hundred years ago, allegedly placed through far-right activists.
Neo-fascist activists hung a banner on a bridge near the Colosseum in the Italian capital to mark the centenary of Benito Mussolini’s march on Rome on Friday.
The banner, which features a giant photo of the fascist dictator dressed in army uniform along with the words “100 years later, the march continues,” took the impression on the Ponte degli Annibaldi, a small elevated bridge near Italy’s most visited cultural monument. Thursday night.
La Repubblica reported that the activists belonged to the National Movement, a far-right founded two years ago through Giustino D’Uva, whom the newspaper described as “an old acquaintance” of Italian neo-fascism who ran as a candidate in Puglia in 2019. Parliamentary elections.
On October 28, 1922, Mussolini and his armed fascist troops marched from Milan to Rome “to take by the throat our miserable ruling elegance. “Two days later, King Vittorio Emanuele III passed the force to him. anti-Jewish racial legislation in 1938 and sending thousands of Italian Jews to death camps. His fascist regime fell in 1943.
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In April 1945, Mussolini and his lover, Clara Petacci, were shot dead by partisans in the final days of World War II before their bodies were hung from a gas station in a Milan square. His remains were taken to his Predappio, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in 1957.
Mussolini’s admirers have flocked to Predappio for years, especially since the crypt of his circle of relatives in the San Cassiano cemetery reopened year-round last March. other occasions organized through Mussolini’s descendants, adding two Masses offered through an excommunicated ultra-fascist priest.
A countermarch organized through the ANPI anti-fascist arrangement also takes position on Friday in the city to mark the anniversary of Predappio’s liberation from fascism.
The anniversary of the march in Rome coincides with the entry into force of a government led by the Brothers of Italy of Giorgia Meloni, a party of neo-fascist origin. Meloni, who is Italy’s first female prime minister, denounced fascism in her first speech to parliament on Tuesday, saying she had seen Mussolini’s racial legislation as the “lowest point in Italy’s history. “