The fascist greetings on the anniversary of the murder of three young people from the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) that occurred in Rome in 1978 have unleashed the anger of the Italian opposition, which has requested the parliamentary appearance of the Minister of the Interior of the far-right Government Giorgia Meloni.

The rally in front of the old MSI headquarters, in which a thousand people called this Sunday “roman greeting“, extending his right arm in front, and responding in unison with cries of “present”, It occurred after the official commemoration of what was known as the Acca Larentia massacre ended.

The president of the Lazio region, whose capital is Rome, Francesco Roccastressed that the greetings did not take place during the official ceremony, whose “sole purpose was to remember the three victims of the Years of Lead,” he said in reference to the decades from the 60s to the 80s marked by numerous political attacks in the country.

“If there had been Roman greetings, I would not have hesitated to stigmatize them and distance myself from them. Accusing me of having given institutional coverage of fascist meetings is defamatory“he added about the official event, according to local media. However, the almost entire opposition has harshly criticized the fascist greetings carried out within the framework of the commemoration.

“Rome, January 7, 2024. And it seems like 1924. We will present a question to Minister (Matteo) Piantedosi, what happened is not acceptable. Neofascist organizations must be dissolved, as the Constitution says,” said today the leader of the opposition and the progressive Democratic Party (PD), Elly Schlein.

Also the senator of the centrist Italia Viva Enrico Borghi assured that “this image It seems dated exactly one hundred years ago.in 1924, and instead it is from last night”, while the secretary of Más Europa, Barbara Vecchietti, defined it as “a unacceptable shameVecchietti added that Meloni, who “for years has been asking for clarification of the murder” of the three young people, should “oppose” the “instrumentalization” of the massacre “for the usual extremist gathering.”

These neo-fascist acts have become a problem for Meloni, who has been forced on several occasions to put a middle ground between those nostalgic for fascism in Italy and her Government.

Meloni has discarded any anti-democratic nuances of his formation, but maintains as the symbol of the Brothers of Italy the so-called “tricolor flame“, emblem of the youth organization of the former and post-fascist MSI in which he was active as a young man.

“Politically it is something far from me in a very significant way,” Meloni said at the end of October 2023, after a demonstration at Mussolini’s grave that also featured fascist salutes.