Fascist salute crime even if commemoration says top court

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 17 - Italy's top court said Wednesday Fascist salutes may be crimes even if they are merely commemorative reversing reports that it had said just that in a January ruling ordering a second appeal for eight far right militants who had been found guilty of making the salute during a commemoration in Milan in 2016.
    In order to assess whether the salute is a crime, the Cassation Court said in the explanation of the January 18 ruling, you have to factor in "the environmental context, the symbolic value of the place, the immediate or not connection to the historic perioid (of Fascism), the number of participants, and the repetition of the gestures as well as the danger of emulation".
    Hundreds of neofascists recently made the salute at a commemoration of the anniversary of a 1978 Rome attack by far left militants in which three teen neofascist militants lost their lives. (ANSA).