“I fully agree with Rampelli when he says that FdI is totally unrelated to the episode of the Roman greetings at the commemoration of the three very young victims of the Acca Larenzia attack. Furthermore, the event was sensational and had a lot of visibility, but the party really had no role or responsibility in what happened.” Thus the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, on the gathering with a Roman salute which took place on Sunday during the anniversary of the Acca Larentia massacre in Rome.
“We have always told our people not to participate in certain demonstrations, which are inevitably exploited by those who want to attack us – adds La Russa – we don't go to certain commemorations. We have nothing to do with it, the party has nothing to do with it.”
On the Roman salute as a gesture of apology for fascism, and therefore a crime, La Russa underlines “more as a lawyer than a politician” how “there is uncertainty about how to consider certain gestures in the case of commemoration of deceased people. I await with interest the planned meeting of the assembled sections of the Court of Cassation on this very point. It is possible that it will be established that a Roman salute during a commemoration is not an apology for fascism, and therefore is not a crime, as many sentences establish. Clarity would be needed, we expect it. As a lawyer, rather than a politician. Because, I repeat, as a party we are strangers to certain demonstrations. So we have nothing to dissociate ourselves from.”
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