Overview
- The preliminary judge rejected the Rome prosecutor’s request to send the defendants to trial under the Scelba and Mancino laws.
- The decision applies Cassation guidance that treats the salute as punishable only with a concrete danger of reconstituting a dissolved fascist organization or when it meets Mancino thresholds.
- The gestures occurred during the January 7, 2024 commemoration on via Acca Larentia marking the 1978 killings.
- ANPI, a civil party in the proceedings, said it will ask the prosecutor to appeal the dismissal.
- Those cleared reportedly include CasaPound figure Gianluca Iannone, and defense lawyer Domenico Di Tullio argued the salute was commemorative and posed no concrete danger.