Foibe, Gasparri speaks “representing the Senate”: the Democratic Party leaves the ceremony in Basovizza. “It is now the stage of the sovereign right”

Two interventions deemed “irrituali“: First the unpublished one of the President of the Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Northern League Massimiliano Fedriga; then that of Maurizio Gasparri, former An and PDL and now in Forza Italia, invited to speak “representing the Senate”. It was at that point that the parliamentarians of the Democratic Party present at the ceremony for the Remembrance Day at the Foiba di Basovizza they left in protest. “The Foiba di Basovizza is now the stage of the sovereign right,” commented the former governor and now a Democratic deputy Debora Serracchiani. “Our commitment is ever greater so that this day is a solemnity in which we share pity and justice – he adds – and not an opportunity to go in the front row in search of cameras”. But Gasparri defends himself: “My intervention was purely institutional. I have spoken like Senate representative and I also quoted the words of the Head of State, Mattarella. All the speeches were listened to and appreciated by the public, with a clear consensus. If Debora Serracchiani didn’t like the event, it’s her problem. ” According to Forza Italia, Gasparri had received the mandate to represent the Senate directly from the president Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, as president of the council (that of immunities, as is known). It must be said that these representative duties, when the president is not available, are delegated to the vice-presidents and not to the presidents of the junta.

The Minister for Relations with Parliament had attended the ceremony before the Remembrance Day ceremony Federico D’Incà and the president of Regione Fedriga: “For too long it has been denied suffering of Italians in this area, who have seen death and suffering, “he said. As he himself pointed out, today was the first intervention of a governor at the foiba event. Fedriga then made an appeal – which he had already launched on the sidelines, staying with journalists for a few minutes before the ceremony began – namely that “they are not more public funds disbursed associations that deny the blood and death of these people, of our people “.

The remote duel on the Foibe is still waged on the suspicion from the left that on the right we want to record the day that commemorates the massacres of Tito’s army and on the accusations of the right to want to do “reductionism“(If not denial) on the massacres and the Dalmatian Julian exodus. A comparison that can be summarized with the declarations of the President of the Tuscany Region Enrico Rossi and the parent company of Forza Italia Annamaria Bernini. The governor Pd says that “it was a real ethnic cleansing. Denying this disaster or diminishing it is, as President Mattarella says, regrettable. ” “But if it is true that one crime cannot be justified with another – he adds -, it is equally regrettable to remove racism and ethnic cleansing, carried out by ‘border fascism’, against the Slavic populations of which Mussolini he spoke of an ‘inferior and barbaric race’. Today that frontier, so dramatically bathed in blood and horror, has been torn down and you can freely pass from Italy to slovenia and to Croatia. The people of those territories, now, in the sign of Europe, live together, free to mix in peace “. “Remembering the martyrs of the Foibe – Bernini replies – does not mean justifying the fascist crimes against the Slavic populations, as someone on the left subtly tries to insinuate. It only means reaffirming a historical truth that is too long kept silent and doing justice to the Italians without fault barbarously murdered by the communist partisans of Tito. It is a moral duty. ”

After yesterday’s words from the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella which defined that of the sinkholes as “a disaster which was not given due prominence”, all the highest institutional offices joined in memory of the massacres on the border between Italy and Yugoslavia. “A national tragedy that for too long has been shamefully attempted to deny. My memory, moved, this morning at the Altare della Patria “tweeted the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli. The President of the Chamber Roberto Fico stresses that “celebrating Remembrance Day is an act of justice and truth. Remembering the victims of the sinkholes and the Istrian, Julian and Dalmatian exiles means reiterating that those dramatic pages they belong to our history, rejecting each denialist thesis or justificatory“. Remember the tragedy of the Foibe and the exile of the Italians, says the president of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, “Is a moral imperative and a fundamental teaching to be passed on to new generations. For too many years there has been a kind of about this drama cultural civil war who gave birth to a antihistoric denial, anti-Italian and anti-human “. “It is precisely on the memory of the tragedies of the last century that ours are based and find strength and legitimization republican institutionstrue democratic bulwark than the risk that hatred or racial discrimination may come back, “concludes Casellati.

Remembrance Day was exploited by the extreme right. For example, a poster has been posted by Frontal action on a gate valve Anpi headquarters to Genoa: “Murdering partisan, anti-fascism takes care of the truth” the writing. The president of Liguria Giovanni Toti he expressed solidarity with the association of partisans: “Those who sow hatred and violence will never find us accomplices”. “The best memory – he adds – is to condemn any form of violence, today on the day dedicated to the victims of the sinkholes and always”.

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