(ANSA) - ROME, APR 23 - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said
Tuesday that Italy celebrated Liberation Day on April 25 marking
the country's liberation from Nazi-fascism but paradoxically
Italy was still ruled by the fascist code of law signed by
Benito Mussolini while a reformed code named after late justice
minister and Resistance hero Giuliano Vassalli had been
demolished.
"I would like to remind you that our penal code, although partly
reformed, is the one signed by Benito Mussolini and Vittorio
Emanuele III," Nordio told a justice conference organised in the
capital at the University of Roma Tre.
"It is a Fascist code, albeit a very well-written one. (ANSA).