Overview

• South Tyrolean councillor Diego Salvadori invoked Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in a Facebook post criticizing a rainbow flag displayed at a Bozen technology park.
• Vice Governor Marco Galateo ‘liked’ the post before deleting it and later apologized, describing his action as a “typing error.”
• The Green Party accused Salvadori of glorifying National Socialism and raised alarm over the use of extremist rhetoric.
• Governor Arno Kompatscher demanded that Fratelli d’Italia officials publicly distance themselves from the Goebbels reference.
• Both Salvadori and Galateo have issued apologies, prompting discussions about queer symbols and ideological limits within the Fratelli d’Italia–SVP coalition.