After the clashes in Rome there are those who call for the dissolution of Forza Nuova, but pluralism is the salt of democracy, as the constitutionalist Alfonso Celotto explains to Adnkronos. “The Constitution is very clear: it does not prohibit any opinion, not even the fascist opinion. The reorganization, reconstruction of the fascism party is prohibited and the Scelba law clarifies what the crime of apologia for fascism is. According to the sentence number 1 of 1957 of the constitutional court ‘the apologia for fascism, to assume the character of a crime, must consist not in a laudatory defense, but in an exaltation such as to be able to lead to the reorganization of the fascist party. This means that it must be considered not in and of itself, but in relation to that reorganization, which is prohibited ‘”, explains the expert.
The extremism of ideas “can also be tolerated, because in Italy two types of opinion are forbidden, one by the Constitution – the reconstitution of the fascist party – and one by law – denial of holocausts -. If the investigators show that Forza Nuova wants to reconstitute the fascist party, they can also dissolve it otherwise Forza Nuova, Casapound, left and right extremisms must be maintained because they are part of the constitutional pluralism of ideas “, he underlines. In any case,” Phenomena such as those of yesterday are worrying because the right to express thought is always there and is always free, but – as Article 17 of the Constitution says – ‘peacefully and without weapons’, that is, with violence you can never manifest “, he underlines.
When asked why there is so much talk of fascism, he replies: “As Umberto Eco said in his beautiful American lecture, fascism is eternal, in the sense that it is a type of ideas, of approach, to life and to political ideas. distinguish what we are talking about, also because I believe that in recent years the term ‘fascist’ has lost its historical connotation and has become a somewhat generic offense, without realizing in the depth of the historical gravity of what the fascism “, concludes the constitutionalist Celotto.