Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese
told question time Wednesday that there would have been a
serious risk to public order if police had stopped neofascist
Forza Nuova (FN) Rome chief Giuliano Castellino from leading a
mob to ransack the HQ of leftwing trade union CGIL amid
anti-Green Pass riots in Rome Saturday.
The minister said "there was a clear risk of a violent reaction
by his cohorts, with the degeneration of public order".
Lamorgee has been criticised over the police's failure to stop
the assault on the CGIL HQ, led by Castellino and FN national
leader Roberto Fiore, which has spurred calls for FN to be
dissolved under anti-Fascist legislation.
Lamorgese told parliament that the question of dissolving FN was
up to the judiciary and parliament, where the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) has filed a motion to dissolve the
far-right group.
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