The Italian Partisan Association ANPI on Friday chided Premier Girogia Meloni for not calling the 335 victims of the 1944 Ardeatine Cave massacres anti-fascists.
"The premier said the 335 martyrs of the Adreatine Caves were killed 'only because they were Italians'. It is right to clarify that, certainly, they were Italians, but they were chosen on the basis of a selection that struck antifascists, Resistance fighters, political opponents, and Jews," said ANPI.
"It behooves you to add that the list of some of those who, as Giorgia Meloni said, were "barbarically massacred by the Nazi occupying forces' was complied with the complicity of police chief Pietro Caruso, of the interior minister of the (Nazi puppet state) Republic of Salò Guido Buffarini Guidi, and the war criminal Pietro Koch, all fascists".
Meloni responded by saying, in a press conference at the end of the EU summit Friday: "I described them as Italians, what do you mean, anti-fascists aren't Italians? I included everyone".
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