Posted on 12/21/2019 4:32:27 PM PST by marshmallow
In the first round of a lengthy legal battle, an Italian court has ruled in favour of a right-wing Catholic organisation which the Ministry of Culture is trying to oust from a historic abbey
An Italian tribunal has suspended the Ministry of Culture’s attempts to evict a right-wing religious group from a 13th-century monastery in central Italy.
In a ruling issued yesterday, the administrative tribunal of the Lazio region concluded that the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), a Catholic lobby group affiliated with the US president Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, has the legal justification to contest an eviction order issued by the Ministry of Culture on 5 December. This gave the organisation 10 days to leave the Certosa di Trisulti, a hilltop abbey 70km southeast of Rome.
The DHI was awarded a 19-year lease on the medieval abbey last year as part of an Italian government initiative to involve the private sector in the management of cultural sites.
Following revelations that Steve Bannon and the DHI founder Benjamin Harnwell intended to use the building to launch a school for nationalists, the ministry annulled the lease on 16 October, citing irregularities in the DHI’s bid application. It also referred to “false or mendacious” statements made by Harnwell on the documents he submitted to the ministry for evaluation. Harnwell denies these irregularities and says no false statements were made.
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Wow.
Italians in the Ministry of Culture acting as actual Fascists, it appears.
Are the trains running on time?
“Following revelations that Steve Bannon and the DHI founder Benjamin Harnwell intended to use the building to launch a school for nationalists, the ministry annulled the lease on 16 October, citing irregularities in the DHI’s bid application. It also referred to “false or mendacious” statements made by Harnwell on the documents he submitted to the ministry for evaluation. Harnwell denies these irregularities and says no false statements were made.”
The liars as usual are always on the left. Lying is embedded in their DNA. Truth and ethics are something that was left out. This is true whether in USA or Italy or the world over.
But then, I doubt the Ministry of Culture is running them...
Only Mussolini could make that happen consistently. Heh.
Italians in the Ministry of Culture acting as actual Fascists, it appears.
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IL DUCE is down there in the flames of Hell smiling like the Cheshire Cat!
If Mussolini had just minded his own business, instead of bombing Ethiopia, and allying with Hitler, he may have been treated very differently by history.
The only thing worse than a Fascist, is an Anti-Fascist.
The only thing worse than a Fascist, is an Anti-Fascist.
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Astute observation. I’d be interested in your supporting thoughts.
Not usually.
But the trains in Germany are.
What a BEAUTIFUL building!
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