Vandals in northern Italy
replaced an Italian flag with a swastika and other Nazi symbols
at a Resistance memorial on Thursday, a day before the country
celebrates Liberation Day.
Officials in the town of Rossetta, outside Ravenna, visited
the site, on the banks of the Senio river, to condemn the act.
"For some years such acts have become common in the run-up
to April 25," said Michele De Pascale, the provincial secretary
in the center-left Democratic Party.
Last year in Rome, one of Italy's extreme-right groups
spray-painted over a slogan lauding Resistance fighters on the
eve of the anniversary of the country's liberation by the
Allies.
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