ROME - Fratelli d'Italia, the party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has faced uproar after putting forward the name of Chiara Colosimo, a young deputy with links to the terrorist Luigi Ciavardini, for the position of Chairman of the Anti-Mafia Commission.

 A few days ago, the programme Report spoke of Colosimo's closeness to Luigi Ciavardini, the former extremist of the fascist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari group, sentenced to 30 years for the Bologna massacre, 13 for the murder of policeman Francesco Evangelista and ten for that of judge Mario Amato.

 Relatives of victims of the mafia and terrorism, in a letter to Il Fatto Quotidiano, have said they are “astonished and incredulous,” and hope that the candidature will be rejected.

 The letter-appeal: “No to Colosimo in the commission” has been signed by the relatives of victims of the mafia.

 "We ask that the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission be entrusted to a person who does not have aspects of clear incompatibility with the role, as well as a clear and reflected extraneousness to characters whose involvement in very serious events in the history of our country, in which so many people have lost their lives and for which so many families have suffered deeply, is evident," reads the letter.

 "We express the necessity for the best personalities to work in the Anti-Mafia Commission, in order to make this body an instrument for stopping mafia phenomena.”

 eb