In Brescia, the FdI club named after Rauti, tried for the bomb in Piazza della Loggia. The Democratic Party: “Act of arrogance that hurts the entire city”

The founder of the far-right organization and study center Ordine Nuovo Pino Rauti he was tried (and acquitted) for the neo-fascist massacre in Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, in 1974, eight dead torn apart by a bomb during an anti-fascist demonstration. Fratelli d’Italia in Brescia has just inaugurated a new club and entitled it ‘Pino Rauti’.

A choice that risks reopening old wounds and new controversies. Senator pd Alfredo Bazoli he knows that story well because he is the son of Giulietta Banzi Bazoli, one of the victims of the attack, who was fully part of the so-called “strategy of tension”. “I find it incredible that a character like Pino Rauti, whose biography is made up of ambiguity and connivance with black extremism, can be elevated to an example, a model to inspire. All the more disconcerting that this inspiration is claimed in Brescia: it is a act of arrogance that hurts the whole city”, explains the MP. Rauti, father of the current Undersecretary of Defence Isabella Rautiwas first a republican and then a leading manager of the MSI, from which he left at a certain point – returning later – in search of a ‘revolutionary’ and subversive path.

Why name the club after Rauti? The FdI club explained that it wanted to “strongly reaffirm the ideal continuity of our political community”, referring among other things to Rauti’s “spiritual vision of life”. Compared to that massacre, the neo-fascist leader was acquitted because “his position is that of the preacher of ideas practiced by others but there are no situations of objective responsibility”, said the prosecutor in 2010 Robert DiMartino.