(ANSA) - Rome, December 18 - Controversy continued to rage on
Monday about the return at the weekend of the remains from Egypt
of Italy's penultimate king - Victor Emmanuel III.
Representatives of Italy's Jewish community and partisan
association ANPI expressed dismay that a State flight was used
to bring back the body of the monarch, who signed the Fascist
racial laws targeting Jews, is accused of complicity with the
regime of Benito Mussolini and died in exile in 1947 in
Alexandria, Egypt.
Victor Emmanuel III's remains were interred on Sunday in the
Sanctuary of Vicoforte, a church in Piedmont of the House of
Savoy.
Return of king's body stirs controversy
Jewish, partisan groups express dismay at State flight