According to a report issued Tuesday on the La Repubblica daily’s website, Piantedosi rejected accusations by opposition lawmakers about alleged police passivity after January 7 incidents, at a Rome event for the 46th anniversary of the murder of three youngsters of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI).

The Minister granted that “the Police Headquarters will inform the judiciary,” and in that sense investigators have already sent an initial briefing to the Prosecutor’s Office, where they identify those participants in the ceremony, where hundreds of neo-fascists raised their arms straight in the known Roman salute, a characteristic of Nazism.

The Interior minister noted that “the judicial authority will assess the commission of likely crimes, and this is what is happening in these hours with the Acca Larentia incident,” as those annual acts are called, in reference to the place, where in 1978 two members of the MSI were killed and whose perpetrators are unknown.

In view of what occurred, opposition leaders, among them the President of the Democratic Party (PD) Elly Schlein asked Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, head of the ultra-right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI), political force heir of the MSI, to condemn those actions.

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