The son of one of 15 WWII partisans
executed in Milan on August 10 1944 said on the anniversary of
the massacre Wednesday that he "shuddered to think that 100
years after the March on Rome the heirs of Fascism may take the
premier's office" in the September 25 general election, which
post-fascist leader Giorgia Meloni is favoured to win.
Sergio Fogagnolo, son of Umberto who was shot by Nazis and
Fascists in Piazzale Loreto 78 years ago today, did not directly
name Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy (FdI) party has the
neofascist tricolor flame in its logo.
But he called Meloni's main ally, anti-migrant League leader
Matteo Salvini, "a (former) interior minister with a
totalitarian vocation".
During his stint as interior minister from 2018 to 2019, Salvini
outlawed NGO run migrant rescue boats from Italian waters.
The president of Italian partisan association ANPI, Roberto
Cenati, distanced himself from Fogagnolo's remarks.
He said they had "nothing to do" with Wednesday's commemoration
of the atrocity.
Meloni has worked hard to present her party as a moderate
rightwing force while not disowning its post-fascist nature.
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