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Who always and in any case assaults Giorgia Meloni

Who always and in any case assaults Giorgia Meloni

Are Meloni's words about the Fosse Ardeatine really a coincidence? Damato's Scratches

Ignored not by chance – I think – on the front page of Corriere della Sera , Il Messaggero , Il Giorno , Resto del Carlino and Nazione , of the Riffeser Monti group, Il Mattino , Il Gazzettino , Avvenire and other newspapers still, including even Il Fatto Quotidiano – which did not even dedicate the "malice" of the day to her – the controversy of the partisans' association against Meloni for having considered only "Italians", and not also anti-fascists and Jews, the 335 victims of the Fosse Ardeatine in the 79th anniversary of the Nazi massacre was waved as a flag on the Republic – "Meloni rewrites history" – and other newspapers.

We range, in particular, from the "outrage" opposed by the Press to the "memory" of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, protagonist of the commemorative ceremony, to the "Black Memory" of the manifesto and the reproach of the Reformist by Piero Sansonetti, with the question " An-ti-fa-scisti: Giorgia, have you ever heard this word?”.

More soberly, ironically or as you prefer, al Foglio got away with a cartoon in which Meloni, still at Palazzo Chigi on one of the next anniversaries of the massacre, is told that these 335 martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine were "rounded up by migrants armed and then killed just because they liked pasta instead of fried bacherozzi”. Who knows if the team of Giuliano Ferrara and Claudio Cerasa managed to elicit a smile from the outraged, who exploded like a time bomb upon reading the message sent by Meloni, yesterday morning still in Brussels, to ideally join the Head of State.

Like all omelettes, the controversy of the partisan left in permanent and effective service – to which nothing, absolutely nothing Meloni says will ever go well, not even when she says at 12 that we are in broad daylight – pretended to be overturned and backfire against whoever triggered it. "Those Italians shot because of the partisans", headlined Alessandro Sallusti in Libero , convinced that he was telling "the truth about via Rasella ". "The left", not therefore Meloni, "breaks Italy", headlined the newspaper , as perhaps the good soul of the founder Indro Montanelli would have done.

But above all in the Press – which fortunately did not move Mattia Feltri's daily column inside – they were remembered as worse or better, according to tastes, "the times that were" could not be remembered: in particular, the day of the autumn 1944 in which in liberated Rome an enraged crowd mistook the director of the Regina Coeli prison, Donato Carretta , for a fanatic fascist, appreciated instead by the unsuspecting Pietro Nenni, and lynched him in the street, tried to have him cut alive under the wheels of a tram – whose driver refused to save himself from beatings only by showing his Communist Party membership card – and finally threw the poor fellow alive into the Tiber. Where others jumped into boats and finished him off with oars.


This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-assalta-sempre-e-comunque-giorgia-meloni/ on Sat, 25 Mar 2023 08:48:58 +0000.