The... clip showed an estimated 800 people, standing in rows, who gathered in Via Privata Ettore Paladini, in Milan, Italy, on April 29. In the 16-second video, which has been viewed more than 850,000 times, the far-right activists chanted and gave the salutes, which are identical to the neo-Nazi Hitler salutes. The clip comes on the date of the annual meeting of European far-right members.
The crowd were filmed in front of a memorial at the site where student and far-right activist Sergio Ramelli, 19, was murdered on April 29, 1975. Four left-wing activists were found guilty of murdering the student by striking him several times in the head and other parts of his body with wrenches as he walked home. Ramelli's death has been used as an ideological anchor for Milan's far-right ever since. In the video, the crowd chants: "Comrade Sergio. Present."