Unimaginable images from a funeral in Rome: The flag with the swastika on the coffin and the Nazi salutes

The images that saw the light of day from a funeral in Italy, where the coffin was wrapped with the Nazi flag, provoked angry reactions, while those who attended it greeted Nazis outside church. Her Catholic Church Rome described the incident as “offensive and unacceptable”.

Photos and videos from funeral which took place on Monday were posted online and showed Dozens of people gathered outside a church as the coffin with the swastika flag came out of it.. In fact, they had their right hand raised in the characteristic way, according to the British Guardian.

In a statement on Tuesday, the church in Rome condemned the images and said no one, not even the parish priest or the priest who performed the ceremony, knew what would happen outside the church after the service.

Referring to the flag, he spoke of “a horrible symbol that is incompatible with Christianity.”

“This ideological and violent exploitation, especially after an act of worship near a sacred place, remains serious, offensive and unacceptable for the ecclesiastical community of Rome and for all the people in our city“, He stated.

The statement stressed that the parish priest, the Most Reverend Alessandro Zenobbi, distanced himself as well as the church from “every word, gesture and symbol used outside the church, which is attributed to extremist ideologies far from the message of the Gospel of Christ.”

Italian media reported that The deceased was a 44-year-old former member of the far-right Forza Nuova group, who died at the weekend of thrombosis.

It is noted that a similar incident occurred outside another church of Rome last March.