A Veneto chapter of Premier Giorgia
Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party came under
fire from the opposition on Tuesday after it thanked local
extreme right groups for their support in recent commemorations
of the Foibe massacres during and after WWII.
Centre-left Democratic Party (PD) representatives described as
"aberrant" the Facebook post published by the Cadoneghe FdI
chapter thanking "Ideal Continuity and Veneto Fronte Skinheads
for their collaboration and ever precious presence" in
institutional events to mark the national day of remembrance on
February 10 of the mass killings by Yugoslav Partisans of
Italians living in the area that stretches from the Trieste area
in Italy's Friuli Venezia Giulia region across the Istrian
peninsula to Dalmatia in Croatia after the armistice in
September 1943.
"It is a blatant sign of an undoubtedly fraternal agreement
between the militants of Giorgia Meloni's party and this fringe
group with a clear neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic matrix,"
said Vanessa Camani and Andrea Zanoni of the PD.
"In the knowledge that we must always keep up our guard against
these regurgitations, it is no coincidence that we requested and
obtained new funding for the law against fascism during the last
budget session," they added.
Foibe are natural pit-like karst sinkholes typically found in
Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Slovenian part of Istria into
which victims were thrown, sometimes alive.
It is estimated that as many as 15,000 Italians largely, but not
always, identified with Fascism were tortured or killed by
Yugoslav communists who occupied the
Italy established Foibe Remembrance Day only in 2004, as the
tragedy had been swept under the carpet by anti-Fascists in the
postwar years.
Remembrance of the Foibe massacres has found new impetus under
the Meloni's right-centre government, which at the end of
January approved the creation of a dedicated museum on the
proposal of the premier herself and Culture Minister Gennaro
Sangiuliano.
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