VIDEO | Vannacci quotes the X Mas in a video: “Make a tithe”. The staff: “It’s not a fake”

In the video, which is circulating online and among supporters, Vannacci says 'Make a tithe on the symbol of the League'. It might seem like a fake but it isn't: the staff made it known that as a child Vannacci was fascinated by the exploits of the X Mas flotilla before the armistice

ROME – A video is circulating online in which General Roberto Vannacci invites people to vote for him on the ballot paper with a ‘nostalgic’ gesture: “Make a ‘tithe’ on the symbol of the League and write Vannacci, we will overwhelm them all with an avalanche of votes to change this Europe that we don’t like.” The ‘tithe’ instead of the ‘x’, in short. Quotation from the X Mas flotilla. The armed torpedo motorboat that operated in the Second World War and which, after the armistice of 8 September, fought among the ranks of the Republic of Salò. The commander was Julio Valerio Borghese, who in 1970 led a failed coup d’état. An epic that is still dear to neo-fascists today.

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The video portrays Vannacci in a blue t-shirt, epic music in the background and the huge Italian flag waving behind him. The doubt arises that the video is fake, it seems excessive. The secretary of Più Europa Riccardo Magi meanwhile attacks: “A soldier, a politician, an election candidate should know the Italian law that prohibits the apology of fascism. The social platforms on which this was published video must remove it as soon as possible or be sanctioned: we cannot tolerate propaganda being made for an openly pro-Nazi and republican group, which betrayed our homeland by supporting the German invader, torturing and killing our compatriots”.

THE GENERAL’S STAFF: “IT’S NOT A FAKE”

To dispel the doubts, then, comes the staff of the general, candidate of the League throughout Italy: “In reference to the video portraying general Roberto Vannacci which is circulating on unofficial social networks, it is specified thatit is not a fake and was created by some supporters. The Decima Mas, as reported by Treccani, is ‘the assault vehicle department of the Italian Navy which in March 1941 took the name of the X Mas flotilla’ book ‘Courage wins’ General Vannacci remembers how as a boy he was inspired to join the special forces by the exploits carried out by the X Mas flotilla before the armistice. The reference, as already written in the book, is at companies in Malta and in Alexandria in Egypt, before 8 September”.