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David Sassoli’s death: state funeral on 14 January in Rome

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State funeral for David Sassoli after the go-ahead from the Council of Ministers. The funeral of the president of the European Parliament who died yesterday at the age of 65 will take place at noon on Friday 14, in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, in Piazza della Repubblica, in Rome.

It will be the cardinal Matteo Zuppi to celebrate mass. The archbishop of Bologna and the former deputy director of Tg1 have known each other since childhood, when they attended the same high school in Rome, the classic Virgil. In recent years they also met in Bologna, in September at the G20 of Religions.

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Thursday 13 January the funeral home

There will be three gates to access the funeral parlor in the Campidoglio, set up from 9 on Thursday, in the Protomoteca room. The commissioner has issued an order. Via di Monte Tarpeo will be cordoned off for access by the authorities and the body of the President of the European Parliament. The mayor will welcome the coffin at 9 am on 13 November Roberto Gualtieri. At 9:45 am the homage of the President of the Republic is expected Sergio Mattarella. Barriers also on Via San Pietro in prison for the arrival of citizens who want to access the funeral home from 10 to 18. Another passage in via Delle Tre Pile, at the corner with via del Teatro Marcello, to allow access to the press. Around the gates also the services of the police to avoid gatherings. A new ordinance is expected for the day of the state funeral.

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Mattarella, Von der Leyen and Michel present at the funeral

The President of the Republic will also arrive in the church, Sergio Mattarella, and the presidents of the European Commission and the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen e Charles Michel.

Even the mayor of Prato, Matteo Biffoni, with the banner of the city will participate in the funeral, will bring the last farewell of the city to which Sassoli has always been very attached. Prato will commemorate him during the meeting of the city assembly called for Thursday 20.

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Flags at half mast at the Orléans palace and in all the buildings that house offices of the Sicilian regional administration on the day of Sassoli’s funeral, the president of the Sicilian Region established it, Nello Musumeci.

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A minute of silence at the Bundestag

A minute of silence at the first session of the Bundestag for Sassoli. At the request of the President of the German Parliament, Baerbel Bas, the German deputies rose from their seats in honor of the president of the EU parliament.

“He was a president of parliament capable of concluding compromises while defending democracy”, said Bas introducing the session, “he was an indomitable defender of European values. In the most controversial issues he has always known how to keep in mind that in the search for political solutions one must not never forget the fate of individuals “.

The memory of the EU member states and the CSM

A minute of silence. Thus began the meeting of the ambassadors of the member states to the EU, Coreper 2. The High Council of the Judiciary also recalled the President of the European Parliament this morning. “A man of the institutions, a great person who represented us with courage and determination abroad, whom we will all miss”, said the lay councilor. Filippo Donati, speaking in plenum.

In the memory was associated, on behalf of the entire Council, the vice president, David Ermini. “I was lucky enough to be a friend of Sassoli, he was a person of absolute transparency and clarity. He exercised his task in an exemplary way, he was never a biased man, he was a great pro-European. His great passions were the politics towards the least and the European dream “.

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