(ANSA) – MILAN, AUGUST 10 – After 78 years Milan does not forget the martyrs of piazzale Loreto, the fifteen partisans shot on August 10, 1944 by the Nazi-fascists of the Ettore Muti legion by order of the Nazi command.
As every year, the city commemorated the victims of the massacre during a ceremony in front of the monument dedicated to them, in piazzale Loreto, where they were shot. “It was not an execution but a carnage – recalled the president of Anpi Milano, Roberto Cenati -. A massacre that Milan has never forgotten”.
Cenati recalled the importance of countering the “re-emergence of nationalisms and neo-fascist movements” as well as the “worrying anti-xenophobic and anti-Semitic drift. For years we have been asking for organizations that refer to fascism to be dissolved, because the laws are there but we need them. the will to apply them. Just as we hope for exemplary sentences for those who have been the protagonists of episodes of open apologia for fascism “.
Despite the heat, many citizens took part in the commemoration, including Antonio Pizzinato, politician and former secretary of the CGIL. “We must be incisive in reiterating that our country is democratic and based on the Constitution – recalled the deputy mayor of Milan, Anna Scavuzzo -. Those who serve the country must do so in the constitutional spirit and today we give a signal of continuous vigilance on values of the Constitution “. For the Lombardy Region, the councilor for development of the metropolitan city, Stefano Bolognini, took part in the ceremony, underlining how “today, 78 years after the massacre, cultivating memory is fundamental, as Senator Liliana Segre always warns us”. Sergio Fogagnolo, son of Umberto, martyr of piazzale Loreto, spoke among the relatives of the victims. “Milan – he said – is him and will always remain profoundly an anti-fascist city”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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