«I fully agree with Rampelli when he says that FdI is totally unrelated to the episode of the Roman greetings at the commemoration of the three very young victims of the Acca Larentia attack. Furthermore, the event was sensational and had a lot of visibility, but the party really had no role or responsibility in what happened." The president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa stated this in an interview with Corriere della Sera and in reference to the commemoration, which took place on Sunday in Rome, for the three neo-fascist militants killed on 7 January 1978, the so-called Acca Larentia massacre. An episode that is causing discussion due to the videos showing dozens and dozens of people dressed in black doing the "Roman salute" during the ceremony .
" We have always told our people not to participate in certain demonstrations , which are inevitably exploited by those who want to attack us - he adds - We have nothing to do with it, the party has nothing to do with it". «It must be said, historically - continues La Russa - that these boys, like many other victims of years of lead or terrorist violence, have not had justice. I wouldn't want there to be series A deaths and series B deaths, for memory to disappear."
On the Roman greeting he states: «The fact that there is uncertainty about how to consider certain gestures in the case of commemorating deceased people does not help to resolve the issue, and the controversies that arise every time. I await with interest the planned meeting of the assembled sections of the Court of Cassation on this very point."
La Russa also speaks about the same topic to Repubblica: «So far - he states - there have been conflicting sentences on whether the Roman salute on the occasion of celebrations of deceased people is a crime or not . For some sentences of the Supreme Court it was not a crime, for others it was." Therefore «I believe it is important to gain clarity from a legal point of view, there is a need for it. The apology of fascism is one thing, the reconstitution of the fascist party is one thing, the commemoration of the deceased is another."
(Unioneonline/vl)