If Meloni is ‘far right’, why are neo-Nazis trying to kill her?

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Italian police have arrested 12 alleged terrorists who are accused of plotting a Day of the Jackal style sniper assassination of Giorgia Meloni. Many more remain under formal investigation.

According to investigators, the plotters aimed to install the sniper in a room in the Albergo Nazionale, opposite the Italian Camera dei Deputati (House of Commons) in Rome.

Given that much of the global media continues to call Italy’s first female prime minister ‘far’ or ‘hard’ right, and ‘the heir to Mussolini’, you might assume that those arrested are far-left radicals.

But you could not be more mistaken. They are fascists.

That Italian fascists want to kill Meloni, who is steadily emerging as the most important head of government in Europe, puts the left and its media allies in a difficult bind.

Meloni may well regard herself as a conservative but her critics still portray her as ‘far right’ ergo fascist.

This prompts the obvious question:  if Meloni is fascist, how come fascists want to kill her?

As Alessandro Sallusti, editor of the right-wing daily Il Giornale, wrote:

‘Who knows if now at least the intellectuals of the left will accept that Giorgia Meloni, not only is not a fascist, but that neo-fascists want to kill her precisely because she is not a fascist.