Fiamma Tricolore
The
Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore, normally just
Fiamma Tricolore, is a hardline
Italian neo-fascist party. Its name means "Tricolour flame" in
Italian, which was the symbol of the
Italian Social Movement.
It was started by the more radical members of the fascist
Italian Social Movement, who supported party founder
Pino Rauti in refusing to join the relatively mainstream
Alleanza Nazionale. Rauti was later ousted by
Luca Romagnoli, who took the leadership. The conservative coalition
House of Freedoms attracted controversy when they made an electoral pact in
Sicily with the party for the elections in
2001 and for the
general elections of 2006.
In the
2004 European Parliamentary Election the party gained enough votes in the Southern constituency to elect Mr. Romagnoli to the
European Parliament.
Among the more controversial elements of Fiamma Tricolore, there are
Pietro Puschiavo and
Maurizio Boccacci. Puschiavo has been a founding member (in
1985) of the
Veneto Fronte Skinhead, a
naziskin movement based in
Veneto and connected to
Blood and Honour. Boccacci is the former leader of the
Movimento Politico Occidentale, a skinhead organization based in
Rome.
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List of active members of Fiamma Tricolore, from their own website.
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Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1997/8, by
The Stephen Roth institute for the study of contemporary antisemitism and racism,
Tel Aviv University.
