Use of Nazi flag at a funeral in Italy condemned by religious leaders

Italian Catholic as well as Jewish leaders have actually condemned as horrendous an episode in which conservative extremists placed a flag with a swastika on a casket outside a church after a spiritual funeral service as well as provided Nazi salutes.

Rome's Catholic archdiocese claimed in a declaration that clergymans at the church of St. Lucy in a main Rome area, consisting of the one that administered at the funeral ceremony, had no concept of what would certainly take place outside the church on Monday.

Photos on the net revealed the casket birthing the body of Alessia Augello, a previous participant of the conservative extremist team Forza Nuova, covered by the flag.

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A photo provided by the Italian on the internet information site Open up programs individuals collected around a swastika-covered coffin outside the St. Lucia church in Rome, Italy, on Monday. (CNN)

The diocese declaration called the flag "a horrible icon that can not be fixed up with Christianity" as well as claimed the episode was an offending instance of "ideological exploitation" of a spiritual solution.

Authorities claimed they were exploring the event as a feasible hate criminal activity.

Rome's Jewish neighborhood shared outrage that such occasions can still take place greater than 7 years after completion of The second world war as well as the loss of Italy's fascist tyranny.

" It is undesirable that a flag with a swastika can still be displayed in public in this day as well as age, specifically in a city that saw the expulsion of its Jews by the Nazis as well as their fascist partners," the declaration claimed.

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Greater Than 1,000 of the funding's Jews were deported, most to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.( AP)

After a raid on Rome's Jewish area on October 16, 1943, greater than 1,000 of the funding's Jews were deported, most to the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Just 16 returned.

The Jewish neighborhood declaration on Tuesday claimed the funeral event was "much more extravagant due to the fact that it occurred before a church."

A comparable event occurred outside an additional Rome church in March of in 2014.