Fratelli d'Italia's faction is down, the Meloni kids occupy the headquarters. Mischief and the police.

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An unusual scene for Giorgia Meloni's party, which fought so hard with the Security Decree to toughen penalties for squatters. Yet yesterday morning, as revealed by Il Foglio , militants from Gioventù Nazionale, the youth branch of the Brothers of Italy party, barricaded themselves in their headquarters at Via di Sommacampagna 29, a historic site of the Italian right . Police and DIGOS officers, both uniformed and plainclothes, were in the street. The new Rome secretariat of the FdI, led by Meloni MP Marco Perissa, had decided to move the party's youth branch and the headquarters of the Roman federation from Via di Sommacampagna to Garbatella, the historic district where the prime minister took her first steps in politics, while waiting to find a new apartment for the party in the capital. The decision was formally made by the Alleanza Nazionale foundation, which owns all the properties and whose board includes Arianna Meloni . Since this decision was made months ago, a war has erupted between the youths (close to the area of Deputy Speaker Fabio Rampelli) and the elders' party led by Perissa, with pranks and lock changes. This ended with the raid the other night, when the young Melonians found the locks changed and decided to force their way in, occupying the headquarters. A call to the police was made from Via della Scrofa.

Via Sommacampagna—with its Acca Larentia and Colle Oppio branches—is one of the historic sites of the Roman and Italian right, where many members of the ruling class of the FdI, now in government, and some key figures in the history of the MSI, took their first steps. The headquarters of the Youth Front in the 1970s, it was managed by Teodoro Buontempo, who broadcast Radio Alternativa, the independent right-wing radio station, from those premises. It was he who called Maurizio Gasparri, then a high school student, to Via Sommacampagna to oversee the schools. Gianfranco Fini would bring flyers to those schools to distribute on behalf of the party. Giovanbattista Fazzolari, now undersecretary to the Prime Minister's office and Meloni's right-hand man, also frequented that section. He met her when he was the Roman representative of Fare fronte-Azione universitaria, and supported his candidacy at the 2004 congress in Viterbo, where the prime minister was elected leader of the National Alliance's youth movement, beating Carlo Fidanza. Gianni Alemanno also arrived there at a very young age. In those rooms, he hosted a counter-information program for Radio Alternativa with Buontempo, which aired until late at night. The desk on which Paolo di Nella made the posters he was putting up when he was killed for political reasons in 1983 is still in those apartments. In the 1970s , a very young Francesca Mambro also passed through that section, before leaving the MSI and founding the NAR . "I met some really nice guys there," she later recalled. "We were loyal to the party, but protests were already brewing." During the Years of Lead, when symbols were also targets, a left-wing group from Workers' Autonomy attacked and set fire to the headquarters. It was 1977, one of the darkest years of political violence, with the highest number of victims.

The fight for those square meters today is therefore more than a squabble over a few walls; it is also, and above all, a tug-of-war over symbols and memory. Following the news reported by this newspaper, FdI leaders spoke of "trivial misunderstandings." Rampelli issued a statement explaining that the headquarters "recently had a temporary cohabitation with the Rome Federation of FdI . After FdI Rome withdrew, the AN Foundation simply reclaimed the premises, unaware that half of the headquarters is still used daily by the youth of Gioventù Nazionale. A misunderstanding that was immediately remedied by my intervention." Perissa also poured water on the fire, but not on the Fiamma, of course. In the end, Gioventù Nazionale will not be evicted.

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