Partisan grave swastika 'offends Rome'

(ANSA) Rome, March 23 - The daubing of a Nazi swastika cross symbol on the headstone of a boy partisan killed in combat at age 12, Ugo Forno, is an "outrage to our city," the Democratic Party said Monday.
    PD chief whip Fabrizio Panecaldo said it is even more offensive that the swastika was daubed on the memorial to the heroic lad close to then 71st anniversary of the Ardeatine Caves massacre, the worst Nazi reprisal killings carried out in the capital during the Second World War.
    "The swastica besmirching the gravestone of Ugo Forno, the little boy hero killed by the Germans June 5, 1944, as he defended the position on the Aniene bridge, is an outrage to our city and to the values that, after the Nazifascist barbarity and the Holocaust, re-founded our civilisation," said Panecaldo.