They caused a sensation statements of the president of the Italian Senate Ignazio La Russa about them fascist greetings from hundreds of young people during ceremony held on Sunday evening in the Tuscolano area of ​​Rome.

“Party Brothers of Italy it has absolutely nothing to do with what happened. We have always told our people not to take part in mobilizations which may then be backfired. exploitationLa Russa told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

With reference to Sunday’s event, he added that “as a lawyer, I notice that there is no certainty about how such actions should be treated when the memory of dead persons is honored” and that “he is waiting for the Supreme Court to express himself on the matter Court of the country”.

In his statements at the same time in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, o president of the senate of Rome emphasized that “there are decisions of the Supreme Court that consider him roman greeting at funerals it’s a crime and some others, no”.

In the opinion of Ignazio La Russa “the whole matter must be clarified from a legal point of view”, because “the defense of fascism and the reconstitution of the fascist party is one thing, and the ceremonies in favor of the memory of the dead are another».

When La Russa was elected president of the Italian Senate, in the fall of 2022, in Italy part of the press recalled that in his house there were busts of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Busts which, as he later stated, he donated to his friends and relatives.

AP Photo: One of sculptor Eugenio Baroni’s statues adorns the Pietrangeli tennis court in Rome. The stadium is part of the Foro Italico sports complex, which was originally called Foro Mussolini (Mussolini’s Forum). It was built under the regime of Benito Mussolini to bolster Rome’s bid for the 1944 Olympics, which never took place.