Two groups of students clashed in front of the Fosses Ardeatine mausoleum in Rome. This happened today morning, March 26, as Mayor Roberto Gualtieri unveiled the plaque in memory of the 335 murdered by Nazi troops on March 24, 1944, in the presence of a thousand students from various schools Romans. The boys were there to remember the massacre and pay their respects with a red flower at the graves of those murdered eighty years ago. But the visit was interrupted by a cry, that of a student from the Socrates school: “You beat one of our classmates with crutches just because he had an anti-fascist flag!” The reference, he writes Republicrecounts an episode which took place during the walk on the road which leads to the Fosses Ardéatines.
The fight
Around ten students from the Peano scientific high school responded to the cry: “Enough anti-fascism, we are not fascists, fascism no longer exists. Let's enter the mausoleum. » At that moment, a group of boys blocked the entrance of Peano's comrades, preventing them from entering. Indeed, as one of the teenagers who blocked the entrance explains, according to them, “they just want to provoke, they want to hold a demonstration to say that anti-fascism is a mistake”. But according to some Peano teachers, the students “are not fascists, they never said they were. They were on the side of the road and were provoked. »
Voltage
To calm things down, police intervention was necessary: the police intervened when the boys started to push each other. Representatives of the National Association of Italian Martyr Families also visited the site. Like Nicoletta Leoni, who explained to the young people of Peano: “We will organize a guided tour if you want to enter, let's talk about it in the next few days and come with us.” But the Peano students did not accept and asked to enter like everyone else. Inadmissible request according to the other boys: “You don't deserve it, you beat up a boy in the street because he had an anti-fascist flag.” Finally, the door leading to the Fosses Ardéatine mausoleum was closed for security reasons.
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