The Ripper
01-25-2012, 12:31 PM
Rome - Italy's Foreign Ministry has refused to comment on reports that the country's consul-general to Osaka, Japan, has been ordered back to Rome to face a disciplinary hearing over his alleged performances as the singer of a neo-Fascist rock band.
The ministry 'does not express any comment in relation to reports today by news agencies relating to the disciplinary case against the Consul-General in Osaka, Mario Vattani,' it said in a statement issued Sunday.
The statement noted how Foreign Minister Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata had on December 29 deferred Vattani to the ministry's disciplinary commission and had instructed that it proceed 'rapidly' in the case.
The minister's decision followed newspaper reports which revealed that Vattani, 45, besides his diplomatic career, was also the leader of a rock group which performed at gatherings attended by far-right sympathizers.
Footage of Vattani - his sleeves rolled back to reveal heavily tattooed arms - singing at a concert organized by the far-right group CasaPound has also surfaced on the internet.
At one stage, he can be heard shouting purportedly in favour of the Italian Social Republic - an entity founded with the help of Nazi Germany near the end of World War II by Benito Mussolini after the dictator had been deposed by Italy's King Victor Emmanuel II.
Many of the youths attending the concert are shown engaged in the stiff-armed Fascist salute.
Vattani, who is the son of a long-serving top Foreign Ministry official, served from 2008 to 2011 as diplomatic aide to Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno, himself a member of the now defunct post-fascist Italian Social Movement.
SOURCE: monstersandcritics.com
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news23408.html
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The ministry 'does not express any comment in relation to reports today by news agencies relating to the disciplinary case against the Consul-General in Osaka, Mario Vattani,' it said in a statement issued Sunday.
The statement noted how Foreign Minister Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata had on December 29 deferred Vattani to the ministry's disciplinary commission and had instructed that it proceed 'rapidly' in the case.
The minister's decision followed newspaper reports which revealed that Vattani, 45, besides his diplomatic career, was also the leader of a rock group which performed at gatherings attended by far-right sympathizers.
Footage of Vattani - his sleeves rolled back to reveal heavily tattooed arms - singing at a concert organized by the far-right group CasaPound has also surfaced on the internet.
At one stage, he can be heard shouting purportedly in favour of the Italian Social Republic - an entity founded with the help of Nazi Germany near the end of World War II by Benito Mussolini after the dictator had been deposed by Italy's King Victor Emmanuel II.
Many of the youths attending the concert are shown engaged in the stiff-armed Fascist salute.
Vattani, who is the son of a long-serving top Foreign Ministry official, served from 2008 to 2011 as diplomatic aide to Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno, himself a member of the now defunct post-fascist Italian Social Movement.
SOURCE: monstersandcritics.com
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news23408.html
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