Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa has said making Fascist salutes is not necessarily always a crime amid a major furore over the salutes made by many participants at ceremony commemorating the 1978 Acca Larentia massacre in Rome on Sunday. (ANSA)
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Tuesday the Fascist salutes made on Sunday by about a thousand participants at a ceremony commemorating the murder of two right-wing militants during Italy's 'Years of Lead' of political violence in the 1970s and 80. (ANSA)
In Europe there is no place for the Fascist salute, European People's Party (EPP) President Manfred Weber said Tuesdayon the episode in Rome on Sunday involving hundreds of far right militants at a ceremony marking the 46th anniversary of the deaths of thr. (ANSA)
Around 300 extremists pictured raising hands in fascist Roman salute
They had gathered to commemorate Franco Bigonzetti, 20, and Francesco Ciavetta, 18, Stefano Recchioni, 19, who were killed on January 7 1978
No one has been convicted for the attack, known as the Acca Larentia massacre
Hundreds of Italian far-right activists have performed the fascist Roman salute at a memorial commemorate three young nationalists who were gunned down in Rome 43 years ago.
The disturbing images show around 300 extremists raise their hands in the famous straight-arm salute as a show of respect to the men who were killed on January 7, 1978.
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The three victims murdered in the attack, known as the Acca Larentia massacre, were all members of the far-right Italian Social Movement in Rome.