The elected representative to the House on the Fratelli far right list of Italia said that the shot had been taken “in a private context” and that he had “excused more than once” .
Le Monde with AFP
First turmoil in the Italian political ranks. The new chairman of the council, Giorgia Meloni, appointed Monday to the government a far -right deputy, photographed in 2005 with a Nazi armband, arousing Tuesday 1
Galeazzo Bignami, elected to the Chamber of Deputies in September 2022 on the Fratelli list of Italia, the Prime Minister’s post-fascist party, was appointed Minister of Infrastructure. This 47 -year -old lawyer had been photographed during a party in 2005 in black outfit and carrying on the left arm a brassard struck with the swine cross.
His appointment is “an offense, an indecency vis-à-vis the Constitution, the memory, the history and the victims of the [swastika]”, emblem of the Nazis, reacted On Twitter The deputy of the Democratic Party Marco Furfaro. “Shame on you, Giorgia meloni,” he added.
other appointments criticized by the opposition
The interested party condemned, in a press release, “any form of totalitarianism, liberticide and anti -democratic expression”, qualifying Nazism as “absolute evil”. The photo of 2005 was taken “in a private context” and “I apologized more than once”, he stressed.
Other appointments of delegated ministers announced on Monday have been criticized by the left opposition. Claudio Durigon, at the Ministry of Labor, had proposed in 2021 to rename a park, south of Rome, bearing the names of the antimafia judges murdered Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, to give him that of Arnaldo Mussolini, the brother of the dictator. The controversy had forced him to resign.