The Rome leader of the far-right
Forza Nuova (FN, New Force) group, Giuliano Castellino, was
among two rightist extremists cited Tuesday for Monday's alleged
attack on two journalists from the left-leaning L'Espresso
magazine during a commemoration of neo-Fascists at Rome's Verano
cemetery.
The other extremist cited was the head of the Rome chapter of
Avanguardia Nazionale (National Vanguard), Vincenzo Nardulli.
The two are accused of threats, private injury and private
violence.
Castellino was also cited for breaking a special surveillance
regime.
A probe is continuing to try to identify the other alleged
assailants, judicial sources said.
A L'Espresso reporter and a photojournalist were attacked by
far-right militants while covering the commemoration in the
Roman monumental cemetery of Verano of the victims of a 1978
attack against far-right activists.
Reporter Federico Marconi and photographer Paolo Marchetti on
Monday morning were "kicked and slapped" by members of the
neo-fascist movement "Avanguardia Nazionale and the head of
Forza Nuova Roma".
"The assailants included the Roman head of Forza Nuova
Giuliano Castellino", the magazine reported, although he is
"under special surveillance" and was not supposed to attend the
event to commemorate Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco Ciavatta,
members of the now dissolved neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale
Italiano (MSI) party who were killed on January 7, 1978.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini responded to the incident by
saying "those who beat people up should go to prison."
He said he wanted to know why one of the assailants was free
despite being supposedly under special surveillance.
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