On the eve of the second round of the municipal, the left has multiplied the calls to the dissolution of extremist groups, well located in Rome.
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In all the democracies of the world, municipal campaigns are a moment apart from civic life. We are talking about environmental, urban planning, major investments, all that makes citizens’ commitment to their living environment. On this plan as on so many others, in Rome, nothing is quite like elsewhere. Wednesday evening, four days of the second round of the vote that will have to decide on October 17 and 18, the two candidates for the town hall still in the running, the former Minister of the economy Roberto Gualtieri (Democratic Party, Left), in The position of the favorite, and Enrico Michetti (a civic candidate supported by all right-wing forces), evoked these topics, in a live TV broadcast on RAI1. But the spirits were elsewhere.
In fact, these last days a subject has been established in the debate at the point of eclipping all the others: the impunity enjoyed by several neofascist groups very well established in Rome, and more generally the ambiguities of The moderate and sovereignist line facing the memory of fascism.
Figure known to Roman neofascism
The controversy is part of the overflows that followed the manifestation against the generalization of the sanitary pass, organized Saturday, October 10. A few days before the extension of the health care obligation in all the workplaces, entered into force on October 15, the anger of opponents is at the strongest, and the event brings together several thousand people. After first clashes with the police, a few hundred protesters, who had made a lot of heading to the Chigi Palace, the seat of the government, go to the headquarters of the CGIL (the largest Italian trade union), enter In the building and sack several offices.
At the head of the procession, a well-known figure of the Roman neofascist: Roberto Fiore, 62, former co-founder, in 1979, of the Terza Posizione organization, long established in London after having had to escape to escape Italian justice, following the discovery of explosives at his party’s headquarters, and now National Secretary of the Forza Nuova Party (FN).
Briefly member of the European member (2008-2009) and strong fortune of several million euros, he enjoys a considerable aura in the Roman neofascist environments, despite the suspicion of his involvement in the attack of the Bologna station (2 August 1980, 85 dead) and the persistent rumor of links with the British secret services.
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