In Italy, the appointment of a close friend of Georgia Meloni as the head of the anti-mafia commission of the parliament is controversial.

The case only sums up some of the tensions that ran through Italy during the Meloni era, at the intersection of putting his inner circle in the seats of power and the controversy that still lives on in memory. The 1970s were marked by political violence from the extreme left and extreme right.

Born on May 23, 1986, Chiara Colosimo, an MP for the Council President’s far-right Fratelli d’Italia party, was elected to head the Italian Parliament’s bicameral anti-mafia commission. His candidacy and subsequent victory sparked controversy after public channel Rai 3’s Reportage published an undated photo in early May that evoked wounds from another time. We see M.^I Colosimo smiles, hands joined by Luigi Chivardini, 60, a figure of far-right Italian terrorism in the early 1980s, then jailed.

The Italian Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Committee is a symbolic institution, a place of memory identified with the struggle of the Italian Republic against the violence of organized crime and its terrorist consequences. His emphasis on the connections between the majority-winning presidential candidate and the man of the world caused outrage among the opposition, but also among the families of the dead.

Participant in the shooting at the Bologna railway station

A former member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces who was found guilty of murdering a judge and a policeman, Chiavardini was actually tried in 2007 for his participation in one of the most traumatic events of the lead years: the massacre at the Bologna station in August. 2, 1980

More than four decades later, the memory of the explosion, which killed 85 people, still lingers in Italy. The trial is still ongoing and investigative books on the subject continue to be written, the latest being published in January (La strage di Bologna, Paolo Morando, Feltrinelli, unchanged). The court’s verdict, which established the involvement of the far-right in close connection with certain components of the state apparatus, was often contested by Baton’s political family.^I Melon.

In an open letter that was published Fatto dailySalvatore Borsellino, the brother of Judge Paolo Borsellino, a martyr of the fight against the mafia who was killed in 1992, as well as several family members and defenders of victims of mafia and terrorist violence, came forward. “unbelievers” before the prospect as it seems^I Colosimo is the chairman of the commission. Emphasizing the historical links between organized crime and certain circles of the former subversive right, one of the most famous representatives of which is Kivardin, who is still alive, the signatories thus condemned M.^I Colossimo choice for such an important role (…) A person who is not ashamed of his relationship with a mass murderer who has never repented.”