controversy breaks out, organizers at the police station

The police station of Brescia convened the members of a neo-fascist organization of the Lombard city, ordering them to cancel a “tricolor aperitif”. These are the same people who marched in demonstrations in recent days, but they are not linked to those responsible for the appearance of dozens of swastikas on the walls of the city.

The “tricolor aperitif” of Brescia

The Brescia police headquarters summoned some local neo-fascists after a flyer appeared on social media that spoke of a “tricolor aperitif” organized by them in Piazza Vittoria.

The meeting should take place on December 28, but the police have decided to summon the organizers for the previous day, on December 27thasking them to either move the event or cancel it entirely.

One of the swastikas that appeared in Brescia

The Lombard city is in fact experiencing a complicated period, also because the trial of Marco Toffaloni for the massacre of Loggia Square.

The neo-fascist demonstration

The organizers of the “Tricolor Aperitif” which came to the attention of the police are not a new acquaintance in the world ofextreme right in Brescianor to the authorities of the Lombard city themselves.

A few days ago they marched in a demonstration entitled “Defend Brescia” through the streets of the city, causing indignation among the inhabitants and also the reaction of the mayor Laura Castelletti, who had defined the procession as a “vehicle of hate.”

Also for this reason the police would have asked to move or rather to cancel the aperitif completelyto avoid further tensions and controversies after the demonstration.

The swastikas and Piazza della Loggia

Brescia seems to be experiencing many far-right demonstrations of various types these days. In recent weeks they had appeared on the walls of the Lombard city dozens of swastikas drawn with a spray can.

An event that had worried the police, also because in Brescia, a trial against Marco Toffaloni is underway in the juvenile court, regarding the fascist massacre of Piazza della Loggia din 1974, which took place in Brescia.

The authorities, however, traced the drawings of the swastikas back to two men who say they are not linked to any far-right organization and who claim to have drawn the Nazi symbols because drunk.

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