Via Rasella, FdI insists: “There is nothing to be proud of”. And La Russa: “Perhaps I could specify that they were Nazis”

Brothers of Italy defends the words of the president of the Senate, Ignatius LaRussa, on via Rasella, the partisan attack against a Nazi occupation unit in ’44. “Via Rasella was not an act to be proud of,” he declares Alfredo Antoniozzi, FdI deputy group leader in the Chamber. “Exploiting La Russa’s words makes no sense because the shameful retaliation of the Nazis that struck anti-fascist Italians, Jews and ordinary citizens can never be justified by anyone”.

La Russa himself returns to the phrases published yesterday by the newspaper Free, in which he defined the action of the Resistance as “one of the least glorious”, because according to him it hit “a musical band of semi-retired people, not sinister Nazi SS”. “Perhaps I could have specified better that they were actually Nazis, yes, but it seemed obvious to me. But in fact I could have been more precise about that”, says La Russa interviewed by the Courier. “If I had wanted to talk about via Rasella I would have said much more. From now on I will no longer speak of historical facts, only of current events – he promises – and I expect that I will be judged on what I do and say on current issues, not on the past, of which if anything I will speak with historians”.

The last outing of the second state office is blamed by the Democratic Party. “The President of the Senate insists – declares the senator of the Democratic Party, Philip Sensi – If possible, worsen his position. There is only one word to define it. Only one way to fight it. All in our Constitution, in the foundations of the Republic, of the democracy whose name we bear as the Democratic Party”. The secretary of the CGIL is also hard, Maurizio Landini: “The president of the Senate La Russa, like many others, should always remember that if today ours is a democratic republic founded on work and there are free elections that have allowed his party to be in parliament and the government is thanks to the partisans and to the anti-fascists who defended our country and who defeated Nazi-fascism in our country”. he declared to Rai Radio1. “Without those acts, without that struggle – Landini added – our country would not be a democracy today. It would be necessary for those who swore by the Constitution to recognize it, apply it and fight in this direction”.