A commemorative stamp honouring the founder of AS Roma football club, who was also an infamous fascist, was unveiled at the Italian industry ministry, drawing criticism from Jewish groups and opposition parties.
Italo Foschi founded AS Roma in 1927. He was also an active militant in Benito Mussolini’s National Fascist Party and involved in several well-documented attacks against political opponents.
He was temporarily removed from top positions in the party because of his taste for violence, only to be reinstated and later given a senior role in the fascist administration established in Nazi-occupied northern Italy in 1943.
