 before they joined the queue to 'pay respects' at Mussolini's crypt. At the Predappio souvenir shop in the town centre, teens bought vape kits, flags and t-shirts with Nazi and fascist insignias for just a few euros. Silvia, a Mussolini supporter, said she was not embarrassed to be at the rally. 'It is just historical re-enactment, and you can't cancel history,' she said. Executed by partisans in Milan April 28, 1945, Mussolini's battered corpse hung upside down on public display in Piazzale Loreto. For a decade after his death, the dictator's body was moved between locations by authorities before finally being returned to his widow for burial in the family crypt in this small town in the hilly vineyards of Emilia-Romagna. Many of the crowd were not disappo){kind=link}
Centenary rally marchers celebrating dictator hope Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy will be ‘more tolerant’ of them
Hundreds of fascists descended on the town where Benito Mussolini was born on Sunday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the march on Rome which brought the dictator to power.
The crowd at the centenary rally was buoyed by the election of the hard-Right Brothers of Italy, but Orsola Mussolini, the great-granddaughter of the fascist leader, declined to comment on Italy’s new government when approached by The Telegraph.
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, voiced support of Mussolini in her youth but said her government rejected fascism in her first speech to parliament last week.
“Duce! Duce! Duce!” the crowd of around 2,000 chanted after Ms Mussolini’s speech on the steps of the monumental cemetery where the dictator is buried.