Fresh row over Mussolini killing
A leftist leader’s assertion that dictator Benito Mussolini should have been tried instead of summarily executed by partisans in the waning weeks of the Second World War has sparked an outcry in Italy.
Particularly angered by former Premier Massimo D’Alema’s opinion today were Italian communists, whose ranks supplied many of the partisans who fought Mussolini’s Fascist forces and German Nazi occupiers.
