The ‘Melonian Youth’ investigation by ‘Fanpage.it’ reveals what happens within Gioventù Nazionale, the youth organization of the Brothers of Italy, where there are calls for fascism, anti-Semitism and racism, despite the moderate image that Meloni and their party they try to show.
“If I were a fascist, I would say I’m a fascist. However, I have never spoken about fascism, because I am not a fascist.” The words of the Italian Prime Minister GeorgieMelons They are from the end of August 2022, when the cartoon of the then leader of Brothers of Italy appeared on the cover of the weekly ‘The Spectator‘ titled ‘Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?‘
Danger or not, Meloni’s rise in Europe is unprecedented: In just ten years, she went from obtaining 3.67% of the votes in the 2014 European elections, as soon as she became president of the Brothers of Italy, to being elected prime minister in 2022 and receiving 28.8% of the vote. the votes, the highest percentage among all parties, in the elections European 2024.
Since 2020, Meloni has been president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) . At the end of 2023, the prime minister was included among the most influential people in Europa por ‘The class of 2024’, la classification ‘Politico.eu’ annual.
“The rise of Giorgia Meloni to the head of the Italian Government last year,” writes the American publication, “caused a chill among the centrists from across the continent and beyond.
The possible setback to the “Melonian” rise in Europe
The rise”meloniano “in Europe could have stopped these very days in Brussels, not only with the Advice European still underway, where Giorgia Meloni abstuvoin the vote on von der Leyen’s second term and voted against the appointments of Costa and Kallas.
But also because of the ‘Fanpage’ investigation that revealed what happens within National youththe youth organization of the Brothers of Italy, among calls to fascism, anti-Semitism and racismdespite the moderate image that Meloni and his party have shown since governing Italy.
What has the ‘Juventud Meloniana’ investigation detected that threatens to dynamit Meloni’s career?
The journalistic investigation of ‘Fanpage’ told in two episodes, published respectively on June 13 and 26, what happens behind the scenes at the Gioventù Nazionale of Brothers of Italy. Between anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic insultstogether with glorification of Nazism and far-right Italian terrorists by the militants.
Thanks to an undercover journalist in the youth of Meloni’s party, the videos show calls to the ‘Duce’, gladiatorial salutes and ‘Sieg heil’.
There are those who talk about “Jews living from the Holocaust“, militants who praise the “Uncle Benito“, along with anti-Semitic and racist insults, greetings Romans and exaltation of Nazism.
In the youth organization of the ‘tricolor flame’the oldest surviving Italian political symbol, invented by the veterans of the Republic of Salò who founded the Movimento Socialista Italiano (MSI), there is also room to remember Francesca Mambro and Valerio Fioravanti, founders of the Nar, the Revolutionary Armed Nucleihe terrorist group of neo-fascist inspiration responsible for the Bologna massacre and 33 murders.
Has caused an earthquake of Brothers of Italy after the investigation of ‘Gioventù Meloniana’
In the same hours of Giorgia Meloni’s negotiations in Brussels, an earthquake began to shake HdI in Rome. After the publication of the second episode of ‘Fanpage’ about the youth of the party, the first to take a step back was Elisa Segnini Bocchia di San Lorenzo, now former head secretary of Ylenja Lucaselli, party group leader in the Budget Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. Recorded with hidden cameras, Segnini said, among other things, that “I had never stopped being racist or fascist“.
After Segnini, he also resigned Flaminia Pacehead of the party’s youth circle and member of the European Affairs and Cooperation Commission of the National Council.
Among the testimonies collected by ‘Fanpage’, there is a recording of Pace who, in the car, confesses with amusement: “The most beautiful thing was yesterday making fun of the swastikas and then me who had made the statement in solidarity with Ester Mieli…”.
What has Meloni said about the ‘Fanpage’ investigation?
After weeks of silence, Giorgia Meloni spoke for the first time about the investigation since Brussels, late Thursday afternoon, on the sidelines of the first day of the EU Council. Quickly condemning the events arising from ‘Gioventù Meloniana’, the premier attacked the method used by reporterstypical of undercover journalism.
Melons He even invoked the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella: “Is it allowed? I ask the political parties, I ask the President of the Republic. In other times these were the methods that the regimes used: Infiltrate the political parties.”
Asked whether or not she was aware of the behavior of the young people of her party, the premier, however, denied it. “I couldn’t be aware. As I have said many times and I repeat, I believe that those who have racist, anti-Semitic or nostalgic feelings have simply gone to the wrong house because These feelings are incompatible with Brothers of Italyare incompatible with the Italian right, with the political line that we have clearly defined in recent years and, therefore, on this I do not accept that there is ambiguity,” Meloni reiterated.
After two years, there is still someone in Brussels who wonders: “Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?“.
