Italy's top court said Wednesday
Fascist salutes may be crimes even if they are merely
commemorative reversing reports that it had said just that in a
January ruling ordering a second appeal for eight far right
militants who had been found guilty of making the salute during
a commemoration in Milan in 2016.
In order to assess whether the salute is a crime, the Cassation
Court said in the explanation of the January 18 ruling, you have
to factor in "the environmental context, the symbolic value of
the place, the immediate or not connection to the historic
perioid (of Fascism), the number of participants, and the
repetition of the gestures as well as the danger of emulation".
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.
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