The Anpi does not want Deputy Minister Bignami at the Reggio Emilia Tricolor Festival: “He had a swastika on his arm”

REGGIO EMILIA The presence of Galeazzo Bignami, deputy minister of infrastructures, at the celebrations of the 225th anniversary of the Tricolore “if confirmed, it would foreshadow a serious political slight towards the history of the city, a gold medal for the Resistance, foreseeing the presence of a government representative who is characterized by having exhibited with the Nazi swastika on his left arm. The fact cannot be reduced to a joke or something similar”. He says it Hermes Flaccadoripresident of the Anpi of Reggio Emilia, regarding the presence – instead of the premier Giorgia Meloni representing the institutions – the Bolognese member of the Fratelli d’Italia parliamentarian

“The medal collection and the flag of the Reggio Emilia ANPI – he says – like the other partisan and combatant associations, displayed on that occasion are to remind all of the sacrifices and mourning suffered by the Italians for the Nazi and Fascist violence and barbarism. The celebration, I hope it will be an opportunity not for a political snub but for a signal to unite the patriotic spirit of the nascent Cispadana Republic with the principles expressed by the struggle for liberation from fascism and Nazism which are the basis of our Republican Constitution”.