Funeral with Nazi flag, the family: “We didn’t know, Alessia didn’t want to”

“The family, friends and Alessia herself, who disappeared in Rome on January 7 last year, distance themselves and dissociate themselves from what happened outside the church of Santa Lucia after the funeral”. Stefania Vesica, Alessia Augello’s aunt, writes this on Facebook after the controversy over the Nazi flag resting on the young woman’s coffin at the end of the funeral, held yesterday in Rome, by some of those present. “We are saddened by the loss of our beloved Alessia. We totally dissociate ourselves from the events that took place outside the Church, of which we were not aware and that not even Alessia herself would have shared or appreciated in any way. We would never have allowed or appreciated. authorized what then happened. We ask journalists and everyone, given the gravity of our loss, to respect our pain and the name of Alessia Augello “, the message of the family.