Nordio on the Crime of Reconstituting the Fascist Party: “But the Penal Code Was Signed by Mussolini”
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- Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said the country faces a contradiction when courts prosecute the reconstitution of the Fascist Party under a penal code signed by Benito Mussolini and King Vittorio Emanuele III.
- Nordio made the comments at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio while discussing debates over anti-fascism and a possible resurgence of fascism.
“The penal code is signed by Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III,” Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio.
Nordio presented this as a contradiction in current debates over anti-fascism and what he called a resurgent fascism. He said a person could be judged and potentially convicted for reconstituting the Fascist Party by a judge holding a code signed by Mussolini.
His remarks were delivered during an intervention at the forum and reported by CorriereTv.
The penal code is signed by Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III. So we find ourselves in the contradiction that today, while we are always talking about anti-fascism, resurgent fascism and so on, a person is judged by a judge who may convict them for reconstituting the Fascist Party while holding a code signed by Mussolini.
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Originally published by Corriere della Sera in Italian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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