Fascist salute crime if endangers public order-top court PG

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 18 - The fascist salute falls within the punitive perimeter of the 'Mancino law' banning apology for fascism and the reconstitution of the Fascist Party when it poses a concrete danger to public order, the supreme court's Prosecutor General and Attorney Genera Pietro Geta said Thursday.
    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.
    Some government members said in the wake of the highly publicised incident that the salute was not always a crime.
    Gaeta made his statement to the Cassation Court in a case in which the high court is set to clear up the interpretation of fascist salutes.
    The Cassation Court ruling is expected later Thursday. (ANSA).