The farmer who created the giant Nazi symbol dismissed it as a joke; other locals called it 'shameful.'
Residents in northern Italy have reacted with shock after an 80-year-old farmer mowed a giant swastika in a field on a hill near the municipality of San Damiano D'Asti.reported that the elderly farmer attempted to play off the appearance of the massive Nazi symbol, saying it was a joke.
Following the removal of the hate symbol, the farmer's neighbors have complained that the incident has resurrected pain from the past. Local resident Frederica Valsania, who lives nearby, said the Swastika was an affront to the memory of those Italians who had fought against the Nazis. Italy, the birthplace of fascism under Benito Mussolini, is seeing a resurgence in the popularity of the far-right. In recent European parliamentary elections the anti-immigration Lega party won the largest share of the national poll, 34.33 percent of the votes.
Salvini, whose party commanded a fraction of the national vote in 2014, has governed alongside the populist Five Star movement since 2018. Lega has risen to power on a wave of anti-immigrant, anti-Europe sentiment and discontent over Italy's economic stagnation.
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