Resistance sign defaced with Nazi symbol

(ANSA) - Ravenna, April 24 - 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.