Liliana Segre, crowd at the garrison for the senator: "Over 5 thousand people at the Holocaust museum"

They found themselves in thousands at platform 21 of the central station of Milan to witness closeness to Liliana Segre, survived the Nazi death camps and today a senator for life made the subject of hate messages on the Internet. "We wouldn't scream to the wolf, if the wolf did not exist ", where by" wolf "we mean fascism is racism, are the words echoed in front of Holocaust museum during the presidium entitled "Liliana non odia" which was joined by almost a hundred signatures between anti-fascist associations and political parties.

"Apart 5 thousand people – despite the pouring rain – they responded to the appeal ", the association said"Bella ciao, Milan!". At the garrison, launched on Friday 8 November on Facebook, which in three days has reached the adhesions of over 12 thousand citizens, they have joined almost 100 acronyms, between political forces and souls of the civilized world and of associations. Many people present, emphasizes the Democratic party Milanese, they used the image of lily, a white flower symbol of purity, innocence and candor, but also of pride and pride, from which derives precisely the name of Liliana. The senator's children were also present Federica, Luciano is Alberto. After the institutional greetings of the deputy mayor Anna Scavuzzo and the song of "Hello beautiful"Sung by Checcoro, many (members of associations, parties and ordinary citizens) wanted to read messages of peace and solidarity, reading testimonies, poems, excerpts of songs and stories.

Just outside Rome, meanwhile, the mayor of Fiano Romano Ottorino Ferilli has appealed to colleagues from all over Italy: to give the honorary citizenship to the senator. "It is not a question of political color – says Ferilli – it is urgent and necessary for Italy to declare itself unit and compact around the values ​​of the Constitution. It was January 22, 1973, when the Municipal Council of Fiano Romano decided for the first time to grant honorary citizenship to Umberto Terracini, Senator of the Italian Republic, who was among the Fathers of the Constitution whose fundamental principles of freedom, democracy and social progress he fought for his whole life. Fiano Romano, therefore, after more than 40 years, is preparing to deliberate, unanimously, a proposal of honorary citizenship that sends a clear and strong message ".

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