With an eye towards next October – when the eightieth anniversary of the Marzabotto massacre will be remembered – in Monte Sole tomorrow the traditional April 25th organized by the Regional Committee for honoring the fallen will be celebrated. Protagonists of the event at different times of the day were the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region Stefano Bonaccini, the secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini, the father of Ilaria Salis, Roberto, the workers of La Perla and some figures from the world of culture and journalism, from Moni Ovadia to Aldo Cazzullo of Corriere della Sera.
The minister’s statements
In the background the request for a ceasefire for the ongoing wars and the controversy triggered by the censorship of monologue by Antonio Scurati, which will be read during the day, and from the words of the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, who defined the anniversary as divisive: «As long as these are the terms of a unifying holiday like April 25th – said the minister – a founding moment for our most republican history will weaken than to strengthen it.”
The invitation to Mattarella
«April 25th is divisive for those who are fascists or have nostalgia for fascism – is the reply of the mayor of Marzabotto, Valentina Cuppi – otherwise it is a celebration for all Italians, because it is a historical truth that all of Italy has been liberated, giving freedom even to those who still have nostalgia for Mussolini.” Once again indicating Monte Sole as a “symbolic place of democracy in our country”, the mayor and former president of the Democratic Party attacks those who are implementing “an attempt to eliminate the value of the Resistance”. Finally, it is up to the president of the Honorary Committee, Valter Cardi, to extend the invitation to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella for the 80th anniversary of the massacre: «I have already written four or five letters – he says – but we have not yet managed to have a positive response.” For the organizers, the unknown remains the weather, but whether the weather will be kind No fewer than 10 thousand people are expected on the hills of Marzabotto tomorrow.
The ceremony in Bologna
Obviously it will also be Liberation Day in Bologna with the celebrations starting at 9.30 with the laying of a wreath on the tombstone of the war dead in the cloister of the Basilica of Santo Stefano and will continue at 10.15 in Piazza Nettuno with the official ceremony and with the interventions of the mayor Matteo Lepore, the president of the provincial ANPI Anna Cocchi and the regional health councilor Raffaele Donini. At 12, in the garden of Villa Casarini, the deputy mayor Emily Clancy will intervene in front of the plaque in memory of the homosexual victims of Nazi-fascism. Finally, from 4pm to 6pm, Piazza Maggiore will host the Grand Liberation Ball.
The ordinance at Pratello
All eyes focused, as always, on April 25th at Pratello with the party that will start at 10am with the commitment to close no later than 8.30pm. In recent days, Palazzo d’Accursio published the ordinance which establishes that the sale of drinks in the area will be allowed until 8pm and can then resume from 6.30am on 26 April: Furthermore, the takeaway sale of alcohol is prohibited from 7am tomorrow to 6.30am the following day, as well as the setting up of drink administration points outside commercial activities. Bivouac ban in Piazza San Francesco from 10am tomorrow to 6.30am the following day.
