Casellati: “Continue the work of desecrating the documents”
The President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, in a message to the mayor of Bologna on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the Bologna massacre, recalled that these are images “that are not forgotten those of the Bologna station on the morning of August 2, 1980, with the waiting rooms demolished by an explosion that in an instant wiped out 85 lives and left more than 200 wounded on the ground; with debris and dust of a gray so intense as to erase the colors of summer; with the incessant sound of the sirens of the emergency vehicles; with taxis turned into ambulances and buses into hearses; with the incessant digging of everyone, firefighters, law enforcement, volunteers and citizens, to save as many lives as possible. They are the images of a war scenario in which innocent women, men and children were the instrument of a crazy, lucid and unforgivable design, to strike at the heart the fragile achievements of a democracy that is still too young and inexperienced “. And he underlined both the objective “of transparency, accessibility and knowledge in which I continue to believe and for which I intend to continue, as I promised, the work of declassification of the acts of the commissions of inquiry that have worked on the great massacres of the past is rigorous. So that the Italy of today and that of tomorrow never forget what has been and what must no longer happen ».
Fico: “No room for oblivion and mystification”
“There can be no room for oblivion and mystification. We owe it to our democracy “, underlined the president of the Chamber Roberto Fico, in the message sent to Virginio Merola, mayor of Bologna and president of the Solidarity Committee for the victims of the massacres, and to Paolo Bolognesi, president of the Association of the Families of the Victims of the massacre at the Bologna station 2 August 1980, on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the Bologna massacre. «The memory of that terrible 2 August 1980, in which a deadly bomb ripped through the station, killing 85 people and injuring over 200, still remains a painful wound for the whole country. It is especially so because, after forty-one years, we still do not have the full truth about the massacre. This is unacceptable for the victims and for the many families, marked by pain and a sense of frustration and helplessness, and it is unacceptable for a rule of law, based on principles of transparency, social cohesion, justice and democracy ”.
Cartabia: “It was an attack on the people and on the heart of the Republic”
“The Bologna massacre, like those that followed one another in the years of the so-called” strategy of tension “, is an opaque and obscure fact, deaf, because it is driven by nihilism: it needs to tear apart the body of the other, a common citizen, innocent, and with him tearing apart what an English expression calls ‘body politic’, the political and democratic unity of a people who recognize themselves in a nation. That of 2 August 1980 was an attack on the entire Italian people and on the heart of the Republic », said the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia in a passage from his speech at the commemoration of the massacre at the Bologna station of 2 August 1980. “Violence wants to provoke hatred, anger, other violence – he underlined -: it is a great law of human history and our present is not exempt from it. It is a possibility that affects us all, even today. The forms change, the modalities are transformed; but also in the culture of our time blind hatred, unable to communicate, generates nameless enemies, or changes their name, crippling them, to cause greater humiliation and more definitive annihilation ». In the opinion of Cartabia, «where one escapes confrontation, the conflict is transformed into an incomparable conflict, wrapped in an incandescent atmosphere prey to the amicus-hostis, friend-enemy logic. The act of terror reduces the other to a deathly silence. We are here today, instead, to fully renew the memory and value of the people who have died, of those who have been torn in the flesh, of their families: we need a word that gives meaning to all this and there is need a word of justice ”.
Sassoli: “So many questions, memory against the danger of fascism”
«The Bologna massacre imposes on us the duty to remember how precious are the values of freedom, democracy and justice. Even today – 41 years later – there are many questions on a page of Italian history that must remind us of the danger represented by fascism within democratic life “, is the message that the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, has addressed to the mayor of Bologna Virginio Merola. «Remembering – asserts Sassoli – is a duty today and always to ensure that the mistakes made once do not happen again and to guarantee justice to all those who lost their lives that morning in August. We need a commitment against denial, because having a historical memory means rediscovering yourself as part of a community, a community that protects its citizens and their rights. A half truth is not a truth ».
Politics asks for truth and justice
«Time stopped that August 2nd. The tears, the anger, the memory “, the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, wrote on Twitter to remember the Bologna massacre of 1980.” The clock of the Bologna station is stopped at 10.25 but it is not broken. That clock is stopped to remember the lives broken by a neo-fascist bomb and not to forget the need to always defend the values of our democracy », Health Minister Roberto Speranza wrote on Twitter. «Massacre of Bologna, a wound for the whole of Italy. A moving memory for the victims and a thought for their families. Establishing the facts and the responsibilities, only in this way will there be true justice », writes on Twitter Antonio Tajani, national coordinator of Forza Italia. «Today we remember the victims of the massacre at the Bologna station, a cowardly attack on the state and democracy. After 41 years, I express full closeness to the indelible pain of family members. It is a moral duty to never lose awareness of what happened and to keep the memory alive ”, wrote Giorgio Mulè, Undersecretary of Defense and Deputy of Fi, in a tweet. «More than 40 years after the Bologna massacre, among shadows and misdirections, we continue to remember all the victims and to ask for truth and justice. We owe it to their memory and their loved ones ”, the leader of the Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni wrote on Twitter. «And now, with the principals, the red herrings of a state massacre are also revealed. It is due to truth and justice, it is due to the 85 victims and the 200 injured. 41 years later … », wrote on Twitter the national secretary of the Italian Left Nicola Fratoianni.