Investigation demanded after hundreds give fascist salute at Rome rally

People give the banned fascist salute during a rally (Francesco Benvenuti/LaPresse/AP)

Opposition politicians in Italy on Monday demanded the government, headed by far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni, to explain how hundreds of demonstrators were able to give a banned fascist salute at a Rome rally without any police intervention.

The rally on Sunday in a working-class neighbourhood was to remember the killing in 1978 of two members of a neo-fascist youth group in an attack later claimed by extreme-left militants.