Italy: Outcry after deputy pictured with Nazi armor enters government

Galliazzo Bignami, who was elected to the chamber on the Fratelli d’Italia list of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist party, was named infrastructure minister on Monday.

The 47-year-old lawyer was photographed at a party in 2005 dressed in black and wearing an armband emblazoned with a swastika on his left arm.

His nomination was “a crime, an affront, against the Constitution, memory, history and the victims of the swastika”, the symbol of the Nazis, Democratic deputy Marco Furfaro responded on Twitter.

“Shame on you, Georgia Meloney,” he added.

In a press release, the Interest Party condemned “all forms of totalitarianism, freedom-killing and anti-democratic manifestations”, describing Nazism as “absolute evil”.

He said the 2005 photo was taken in a “private context” and “I apologized more than once”.

Other appointments of deputy ministers announced on Monday have been criticized by the Left Opposition.

Claudio Turricone, in the Labor Ministry, proposed in 2021 to rename a park in Latina, south of Rome, after the murdered anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Porcellino. of the dictator. The controversy forced him to resign.

“When the past doesn’t pass. Dark shadows in the choice of deputy ministers,” headlined the center-left daily La Repubblica on Tuesday.

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