BOLOGNA. The breaking latest news of the commemoration for the 41st anniversary of the fascist massacre in Bologna: on 2 August 1980 a bomb killed 85 people and injured over two hundred. The ceremony began in the Municipality of Bologna in the presence of the Minister of Justice Cartabia and the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi. Former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was also present in the procession.
10.10 am Bolognesi mentions Falcone: infamous by Fioravanti
Paolo Bolognesi, president of the Association of the victims’ families, from the stage in Piazza Medaglie d’Oro in front of the station: “There is a black thread that starts from Portella della Ginestra up to the massacres of ’92. The state apparatuses enter into field every time to cover the subversive plots and there are sentences for every massacre that confirm it. It is an established fact that the extreme right was protected by the secret services. Rivers of blood in exchange for rivers of money. Giuseppe Falcone had understood this and the terrorist Valerio Fioravanti tarnished his memory also during the recent Cavallini trial. The trial of the principals proceeds in the indifference of the national press, as if it were only a Bolognese fact “.
10 am Bersani: Was infected in that historical period
Pierluigi Bersani in procession at èTv-Rete7: “It will turn out that Bologna was the crux of the subversive strategy, largely financed, of a part of the state infected in that historical period. Bologna has always been convinced of this. I remember in those hours when they said that a boiler had exploded but Bologna didn’t believe it for a minute. I don’t believe in full justice, but something can be glimpsed “.
9.15 am the procession starts: applause to the family
The march starts now amid applause to the families of the victims. Applause also in via Indipendenza for the passage of Minister Cartabia. The parade is joined by the former premier Giuseppe Conte, Pierluigi Bersani of Article Uno, the vice president of the Emilia-Romagna Region Elly Schlein and the anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Morra.
Bologna, 2 August: the procession of families of the victims and citizens returns to ask for full truth and justice
Forty-one years ago “the city of Bologna and with it the Republic were hit in the heart. A bomb attack, by cynical minds aiming at the destabilization of Italian democracy, caused a terrible massacre in which defenseless women and men, innocent children, died. The Bolognese and the Italians knew how to react with suffered courage, offering solidarity to those who needed help, care, comfort. Affirming a strong spirit of unity in the face of the subversive gesture directed against the Italian people. Over time supporting the questions of truth and justice, which, starting with family members, made the memory of this inhumane event an engine of civil redemption and a warning to be passed on to the younger generations “: thus the head of state Sergio Mattarella on the day of the 41st anniversary of the massacre at Bologna station: the traditional, very well-attended procession returns (after last year’s stop due to the pandemic situation) that from Piazza Nett one leads relatives of the victims and thousands of citizens to piazzale Medaglie d’oro
photo Gianluca Perticoni / Eikon studio
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9.09am Mattarella’s message: cynical neo-fascist criminals
The text of the message of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella is released from the Quirinale: “Forty-one years ago the city of Bologna and with it the Republic were hit in the heart. A bomb attack, by cynical minds aiming at the destabilization of Italian democracy, caused a terrible massacre in which defenseless women and men and innocent children died. The Bolognese and the Italians knew how to react with painful courage, offering solidarity to those who needed help, care, comfort. Affirming a strong spirit of unity in the face of the subversive gesture directed against the Italian people. Over time supporting the demands for truth and justice, which, starting with family members, have made the memory of this inhumane event an engine of civil redemption and a warning to be passed on to the younger generations “.
Mattarella underlines how “the commitment of men of the State, supported by the demanding and meritorious initiative of the Association among the relatives of the victims, has led to judicial conclusions that have highlighted the neo-fascist matrix of the bomb that exploded on the morning of 2 August 1980 . Not all the shadows have been dispelled and the commitment to search for a complete truth is still strong “, reiterates the head of state.
“The Republic has been able to reject the strategy of these criminals, defending the principles of civilization conquered with the struggle for liberation. The closeness, which we renew to those who have been struck in the most precious affections by such ferocity, is also a pledge for the future, so that the patrimony of values and humanity, which is at the foundations of our society, should be perceived more and more as an indivisible common good “, he concludes.
8.57 am Cartabia quotes Guccini: “Bologna can count on me”
The Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia: “Bologna knows it can count on me, the ongoing process is a necessity for the history of the country, the Bologna station is a historical hub of Italy. Trust the government and the state too. . This is a people that does not resign itself that does not despair, Bologna (cites Francesco Guccini) knows how to stand up even though it is hit “
8.51 Cartabia: “The cloud is rising”
The Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia renews the promise to discover new truths about the instigators of the massacre in the process still underway to establish the guilt of other black terrorists, such as the Black Primrose Paolo Bellini, in addition to those already condemned: “That cloud that too much to for a long time it has covered the responsibilities slowly and slowly it is rising and allows us to see new boundaries of what has happened. I renew the commitment of the government to concretely do our part, mine for what belongs to me in offering all the necessary support. the work is made difficult by the lack of personnel, I have repeatedly urged the CSM to release an opinion requested since last October for the organic plant in Bologna: we hope that this opinion will arrive soon
8.46 am Cartabia: “Those splinters hit us all”
The Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia begins by quoting a verse from Ungaretti: “We will find ourselves in silence because the answer to the explosion of the bomb is above all silence. A silence that awaited a word of meaning and justice. The choice to be there despite frenetic parliamentary work alongside each of you is to testify to the need to listen again, so as not to disperse that indelible silence in the memory. The splinters of that bomb have struck us all. The Bologna Massacre is an opaque, dark fact: tearing the body of the other to tear political unity. It was an attack on all the Italian people. A word of justice is needed, the State renews its most complete commitment to a full assessment of responsibility “.
8.35 am Bonaccini: the pain never goes away
The president of Emilia-Romagna Stefano Bonaccini: “The years pass, but the pain, suffering and the need for full truth certainly do not pass. Pain for 85 broken lives, 200 injured, for those who survived and carry wounds within themselves The pain of an entire community and institutions, which will never give up until the full truth is reached “.
8.29 am The Golden Neptune at the Association of the victims’ families
Mayor Virginio Merola announces the honor to President Paolo Bolognesi, who comments: “It is an award to those who have sought the truth for 40 years. The city has never. the battle. As Zangheri said at the funeral, we will evaluate from the facts. This August 2nd opens with a beautiful and hopeful moment “.
8.23 am Bianchi: “Legality is born at school”
The Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi: “The government recalls that justice is the defense of legality and the school is the place where the sense of legality grows”.
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