(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 10 - Bologna Mayor Matteo Lepore on Sunday
accused the government of sending 300 'blackshirts', calling a
group of far-right activists that demonstrated in the
Emilia-Romagna city the previous day like the paramilitary wing
of Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party, saying the city
was instead demanding funding in the wake of devastating
flooding.
"I wonder how it is possible that once again Bologna is not
respected", said Lepore, a member of the left-wing Democratic
Party (PD) following opposing marches staged in Bologna by
members of the far-right Casa Pound and Rete dei Patrioti
organizations and leftist collectives and anarchists. (ANSA).