Giorgia Meloni appoints minister once pictured wearing Nazi armband

Brothers of Italy politician Galeazzo Bignami says he feels profound shame' over wearing swastika in 2005

A Brothers of Italy politician who was once photographed wearing a Nazi swastika armband is among the junior ministers appointed in Giorgia Meloni's government.

Galeazzo Bignami, named undersecretary at the infrastructure ministry, caused controversy after a photograph of him wearing the armband was published by an Italian newspaper in 2016. The photo dated back to his stag party in 2005, and after it initially emerged in the press he shrugged the gesture off as lighthearted" fun.