The traditional event, particularly important this year due to the institutional interventions, saw the procession start from the Parco della Resistenza, proceed through Corso Dante and Piazza Galimberti and arrive in Piazza Virginio.
Wedge. The traditional event of the was held this evening Torchlight procession of Freedoman event that every year kicks off the celebrations of the Liberation Day. Thousands of participants this yearwho gathered at the Resistance Parkwhere the institutional speeches were held, and then marched through Corso Dante, Corso Nizza, Piazza Galimberti and Via Roma, until arriving in Piazza Virginio.
This year’s event seemed like particularly felt by both the participants and the institutional figures, who in their speeches reiterated their opposition to the now chronic difficulty of government officials in declaring themselves anti-fascists. “We must not be afraid to use this word“, he declared at the beginning of the evening Gigi Garelli, “The Resistance was born here and is always relevant wherever we fight against oppression, racism and the violation of rights”. The mayor of Cuneo also shares the same opinion Patrizia Manasserowho declared herself happy with the participation of many members of the council and the City Council and who recalled the words spoken exactly one year ago at the Toselli Theater by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella: “Coneo is the city of the Constitution. The Republic bows to the memory of its victims and suffering.”. The first citizen then made us especially remember the partisan relays Anita Barbero and Margherita Barale, to whom the new headquarters of the Cuneo ANPI was recently named, as well as Duccio Galimberti and Sandro Delmastro, on the eightieth anniversary of his assassination. Finally, he turned his thoughts to the European elections next June, inviting citizens to vote for “do not nullify what our partisans have achieved“.
He then spoke Beatrice Verri from the Nuto Revelli Foundationwho declared herself disturbed by the many signs of obscurantism taking place in Italy today: “These twenties seem to me increasingly similar, in many respects, to the tragic twenties of the twentieth century. We must be alert, as the words of the “Badoglieide” also demonstrate“, a song written by Revelli himself which will be sung in Paraloup tomorrow. Even more disturbed by the general context of our democracy, she declared herself the Cuneo deputy and national vice-president of the Democratic Party Chiara Gribaudo: “For the first time since the end of the government no government representative declared himself anti-fascist. This is very serious, but it is not the only interference we are witnessing. For example, law decrees are being used to undermine women’s rights, such as, above all, the right to abortion“. Gribaudo then reiterated how the government intends to move ever closer to Hungary’s democratic model, which is much less transparent and liberal than ours, and how the commitment of the institutions is fundamental but not sufficient: “We need people willing to assert their rights actively, every day. Let’s try to build a different country”.
She also associated herself with the latter choir Claudia Bergia of the Ignazio Vian Partisan Association and the Don Benevelli Cultural Center, which also insisted on need for a free and independent press, after the recent news events regarding the public service. He also thought about reiterating these concepts Paolo Allemanoprovincial president of the ANPI, who concluded his speech by declaring how the partisans, “despite not knowing what democracy was, they gave it to us and we cannot betray them, we must protect it”. In conclusion they also spoke Valentina Zenga of the Living the Constitution and the Committee professor Claudio Vercelli, teacher of Jewish Studies at Limec (High School for Linguistic Mediators) in Milan, who gave the final oration that every year precedes the start of the torchlight procession. During it, with the musical accompaniment of the Duccio Galimberti band, there was no shortage of the classic choruses of “Bella Ciao” and “Ora e semper Resistenza”. The Cuneo celebrations on April 25th therefore started with a full house this year too.
The images of the Torchlight Procession of Freedom in the center of Cuneo
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