Government slammed for anti-rave decree

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday defended her government from criticism that a decree banning rave parties could be used to clamp down on sit-ins and other forms of protest while thousands of fascist sympathizers were allowed to march to the crypt of the country’s slain fascist dictator. Both the political opposition and judicial magistrates voiced alarm the tough lawand-order stance signaled the government’s possible intolerance of disobedience. Critics noted that no action was taken against the weekend march by several thousand Mussolini admirers wearing fascist symbols and singing colonial-era hymns in Predappio, the late dictator’s birth and burial place.