Word: alemanno
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...Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno has denounced the acts of violence, but gay activists remain suspicious of him because of his affiliation with the National Alliance, a party that once espoused fascist ideas. Just a month after his election in April of this year, Alemanno disparaged Rome's annual Gay Pride parade as "an act of sexual exhibitionism...
...presence of security cameras has become an issue beyond this specific case. In the wake of the anti-gay violence, Alemanno recently called for more video surveillance near the Coliseum, but gay rights groups oppose the measure as a violation of their privacy. But if what the two defendants shared was indeed just an innocent kiss, an extra camera or two might have been an invasion of their privacy that could set them free...
...Alemanno's comments were denounced by Jewish groups, surviving resistance leaders and members of the center-left opposition. Walter Veltroni, former Rome mayor and current head of the major center-left Democratic party, said he would resign from a city committee spearheading the building of a Holocaust memorial museum in protest...
...Russa's controversial speech came just a day after Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno refused to categorically condemn Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Interviewed by Milan daily Corriere Della Sera following a visit to Israel, Alemanno, who also belongs to National Alliance, said he did not consider fascism an "absolute evil." While racial laws passed by Mussolini in the last five years of his two-decade reign were abhorrent, Alemanno told the newspaper, "fascism was a more complex phenomenon. Many people signed up in good faith...
...fascist or "post-fascist" Italians still try to separate the excesses of the leaders from what they consider a worthy ideology and the good intentions of its followers. In some sense, the comments by La Russa and Alemanno express the two halves of the nostalgia in fascist circles. La Russa sought to defend the legacy of the soldiers who fought, and sometimes died, in pro-Mussolini forces. Alemanno hinted at the need in Italy for the kind of rigidly controlled, law-abiding society that was said to have existed under fascism...