Senate Speaker Ignazio la Russa on
Wednesday unveiled a mural to two far-right militant brothers
who died after far-left militants set fire to their home in
Rome's Primavalle district on April 16, 1973 saying the tribute
should lead to "pacification".
Unveiling the mural to Stefano and Virgilio Mattei, the sons of
Mario, ex secretary of the Primavalle branch of the now defunct
neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) party, ex MSI member La
Russa said:
"I knew the father, I knew the mother: I was there in those days
and I know how we lived it. This mural is in some way the
testimony that not only us now, but everyone can have this
memory. And it is very important, not for us, but for everyone.
For pacification, for a feeling that must unite not only towards
them but towards all the boys and whatever idea they had or
cultivated that they consciously or, like them, guiltlessly and
unconsciously gave their life".
La Russa in December 2012 helped found a rightwing party that
has its roots in the MSI, Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of
Italy (FdI) party.
He co-founded the FdI, a breakaway from late three-time ex
premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's then People of
Freedom (PDL) party, with Meloni and Guido Crosetto, now defence
minister.
The Senate Speaker is known for keeping a bust of Fascist
dictator Benito Mussolini.
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