Senate Speaker Ignazio la Russa's
characterization of the Via Rasella partisan attack on
German-speaking northern Italian paramilitary police that
sparked the Ardeatine Caves reprisal massacre as "anything but
noble" are "shameful words", Partsian Association ANPI said
Friday.
"La Russa's words are simply unworthy of the high office he
holds and represent yet another very serious rift aimed at
absolving fascism and delegitimising the Resistance," said This
ANPI President Gianfranco Pagliarulo.
"The third battalion of the Polizeiregiment hit on Via Rasella
(in Rome) as it marched armed to the teeth," said Pagliarulo,
"was completing its training to go on to fight the Allies and
the partisans, as actually happened.
"The other two battalions of the Polizeiregiment had long been
engaged in Istria and Veneto against the partisans," said the
ANPI chief.
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