The local Jewish community and Catholic Church in Rome on Tuesday strongly condemned as “offensive and unacceptable” a funeral procession outside a local church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag and mourners gave the fascist salute

Photos and video of the scene outside St. Lucia church following the Monday funeral service were published by the Italian online news portal Open. They showed around two dozen people gathered outside the church as the swastika-draped casket emerged, shouting “Presente!” (“Present!”) with their right arm extended in the fascist salute

In a statement Tuesday, the Vicariate of Rome strongly condemned the scene and stressed that neither the parish priest, nor the priest who celebrated the funeral, knew what was going to transpire outside after the funeral Mass ended
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Italian news reports identified the deceased as Alessia Augello, a 44-year-old former militant of the extreme right-wing, neo-fascist Forza Nuova group. She died over the weekend of a blood clot
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Forza Nuova was created in 1997 in the tradition of the violent, extreme right-wing organizations active in Italy’s so-called Years of Lead in the 1970s, and grew into a national force in 2008

The group is openly neo-fascist. Its current leader, Roberto Fiore, a 62-year-old father to 11 children, was found guilty in the 1980s of subversive crime and founding a far-right armed political movement

La Repubblica said police had been present at the funeral and were investigating