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.
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