(ANSA) - Rome, April 25 - In an apparent dig at his
government partner Matteo Salvini, Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio
on Tuesday slammed people who deny the importance of Liberation
Day, when Italy recalls being freed from Fascism and Nazism.
League leader Salvini has said he will not be marking the day
because he will be at an anti-Mafia event in Sicily.
He has also said that the commemoration in recent years has
been "reduced to a fight between Reds and Blacks".
5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Di Maio criticised those who
"shrug off" the event, and noted that who are not celebrating
it, like Salvini, were at a recent anti-abortion event in
Verona.
"They were in the streets with the antiabortioneers" at the
World Congress of Families in the Veneto city, he said.
association ANPI.
Di Maio said he and other M5S bigwigs including defence and
justice ministers Elisabetta Trenta and Alfonso Bonafede and
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi will be celebrating the day the Allies
liberated Italy in WWII with the Rome Jewish community.
This year, again, Rome's Jews are having a separate
celebration from the main one organised by partisans'
association ANPI.
In response to Di Maio, Salvini said he would be "proud" to
be spending Liberation Day opening a police station at Corleone
and celebrating the men and women who fight the mafia.
"I leave the polemics to others", he said.
Di Maio slams Liberation day denialists
Chides Salvini 'who was in the street with the antiabortioneers'