The club of the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) in the Rome seaside district of Ostia was
set alight overnight, PD Senator Stefano Esposito said on
Friday.
Tension is high in the district ahead of Sunday's runoff to
decide on the new head of the municipal authority.
The PD failed to make the runoff after its candidate came
third in the first round earlier this month behind the
candidates of the centre right and the anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement.
Ostia is electing a new municipal government after the
previous one was dissolved due to mafia infiltration.
"Yesterday there was a wonderful anti-mafia rally," Esposito
said via Twitter.
"Last night they set alight the door of the PD club in
Ostia".
Last week Roberto Spada, a suspected member of a criminal
clan in Ostia, brutally attacked a RAI journalist when asked
about suspected links between the mob and the far-right
CasaPound party, which did well in the first round of voting.
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