L’AQUILA – Today we return to Italy to celebrate the day of liberation from Nazi-fascism. April 25th is considered a symbolic date because in 1945 it coincided with the beginning of the retreat by the soldiers of Nazi Germany and the fascist soldiers of the Republic of Salò from the cities of Turin and Milan, after the population had rebelled and the partisans they had organized a coordinated plan to regain control of the cities. Liberation Day was established on 22 April 1946 by the provisional Italian government, led by Alcide De Gasperi.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will remain in Rome to participate in the ceremony at the Altare della Patria with the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the presidents of the Senate Ignazio la Russa and of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana.
For the Head of State, the memory of the Liberation will continue in a symbolic place of the Nazi-fascist massacres: Civitella Valdichiana, in the Arezzo area, where on 29 June 1944 244 people were killed. Sergio Mattarella said a year ago: the Italian Republic is “founded on the Constitution, daughter of the anti-fascist struggle”, and he spoke in Boves, symbol of the first Nazi massacre, and then he closed his speech from the municipal theater of Cuneo by chanting: “Now and always Resistence”.
But it will also be an April 25th marked by tensions, with places even more divided this year by the conflict in the Middle East. In Rome the security plan has already come to life. The entire area of Porta San Paolo, a symbolic place of the Roman resistance, will be under the lens, where today at 8 am the Jewish Brigade will lay a wreath of flowers. Around two hundred people are expected, including prominent members of the community. And at the same time, a few meters away, Palestinian students, movements, antagonists and university collectives met for an “anti-fascist and anti-Zionist” demonstration.
“Against every form of colonialism, alongside the Fedayeen who fight the Zionist occupier, for the liberation of Palestine. Now and always resistance” underlined by the Palestinian student movement, launching the mobilization. And the police will pay maximum attention to this coincidence to avoid tensions and violent protests. Around two thousand participants are expected, however, in the traditional Anpi procession which will start at 10 from Largo Bompiani and arrive at Porta San Paolo, where a stage will be set up for speeches, including that of Roberto Salis. An event in which the Jewish community will not participate, as has already happened for some years. In the capital there will always be the procession of the ‘Free Now, Free Again’ movements in the morning which from Villa Gordiani will cross the streets of Centocelle and arrive at Quarticciolo.
There will also be high attention in Milan where the national demonstration will, as always, be opened by deportees and anti-fascist brigades, including the Jewish one which in recent years has almost always been the subject of protests and which, in light of the situation in Gaza, this year promises to be more massive. Behind the partisans the banner ‘Cease fire everywhere’ will be displayed, which has created quite a bit of controversy, then the trade unions, the political forces such as the Democratic Party present with the secretary Elly Schlein, the various associations and the Palestinian community. The Palestinian association of Italy promises to bring around five thousand people to the streets. The young Palestinians, however, will meet in Piazza Duomo at 1.30 pm with the intention, together with some social centers and antagonistic realities, to fill the space in which the event ends with Palestinian flags and “kufiyye and all possible Palestinian symbols”. procession with the final rallies. The writer could also take the stage Antonio Scurati to read the monologue canceled by Rai. The plan developed by the Police Headquarters guarantees safety. A device that also takes into account the presentation, at the Institute for the Blind a few hundred meters away from the procession, of the book by the secretary of the League and the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini. And university movements after yesterday’s riots in Turin are also under the spotlight in these hours.
In a question time in the Chamber the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi he underlined that the “profitable and constant” dialogue between the police forces and university institutions has made it possible to ensure “excellent levels of security” so far. The head of the Interior Ministry, however, recalled that a “pillar” of the government’s bill on security, being examined by the Constitutional Affairs commission of the Chamber, “is dedicated to the protection of police operators during the performance of their duties. These are measures, especially the latter, which I strongly wanted and which I believe can no longer be postponed, as yesterday’s events in Turin demonstrate”.
Following the initiatives in Abruzzo in the four provincial capitals.
THE EAGLE
On the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the National Liberation Day, the Municipality of L’Aquila has prepared a program of initiatives linked to the anniversary. At 9 am, in the square of the former Thales Alenia factory, a ceremony to commemorate the Fallen of the Bank of Italy will be held. At 9.30, in Piazza IX Martiri, a tribute will be paid to the Nine Martyrs of L’Aquila, murdered on 23 September 1943. At 10.15, in the hamlet of Filetto, a ceremony will be held to commemorate the massacre of 7 June 1944. At 10.30, in the Villa Comunale , in L’Aquila, the homage to the fallen of the country will take place, with the raising of the flag and the playing of the national anthem, followed by the laying of a wreath, the playing of the Silence and the reading of the prayer for the fallen.
At 11 am, in Onna, the commemorative ceremony for the victims of the massacre of 11 June 1944 will be held.
Finally, at 11.30, at the Pasquali Campomizzi barracks, there will be a tribute from the Municipality to the sacrifice of the Nine Martyrs of L’Aquila, in the place where the young people were killed.
PESCARA
In Pescara, in the presence of the prefect Flavio Ferdaniof the highest civil, military and religious authorities, of the representatives of the combat and arms associations, a solemn commemorative ceremony will be held which will begin at 10 am in Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi.
After the blessing of the laurel wreath by the metropolitan archbishop of Pescara-Penne, Tommaso Valentinettiand the subsequent rendering of honors to the fallen of all wars with the laying of the wreath in front of the war memorial, will follow the mayor’s greeting Carlo Masciat the end the institutional messages will be read and, at the end, the “Prayer for the Fallen” will be recited.
At the end of a day of initiatives, Anpi and CGIL promote the Modena City Ramblers concert in the park of the former Di Cocco barracks, with free entry. 4.30 pm, again in the former Cocco Barracks park, the debate “One, democratic and supportive? The Constitution between differentiated autonomy and premiership”, with Vincenzo Calò (ANPI national secretariat), Lara Gighlione (CGIL national secretariat), Marcello Salerno (Professor of Public Law at the University of Chieti – Pescara).
TERAMO
In Teramo the program includes the laying of a Laurel Wreath at 10.00 in Largo Madonna delle Grazie, a monument to the Fallen of the Resistance. At 11.00 am flag raising, anthem and laying of a laurel wreath in Viale Mazzini, at the monument to the fallen of all the wars and at 11.45 am, delivery of “Citizen Merit” to the values of the Resistance. At 12.00 Villa Comunale “Stefano Bandini”: commemoration of the people of Teramo Alberto Pepe, Mario Capuani, Berardo D’Antonio, Romolo Di Giovannantonio. At 12.45, in the hamlet of Miano, traditional tribute to the Resistance by the residents, in which the Mayor will participate.
CHIETI
On the occasion of April 25th, the synergy between the Municipality, the Presidency of the Municipal Council, ANPI, Arci and the other city associations is repeated, a consortium created to share values, history and memory of the Liberation and the Resistance. The events will be organized by CGIL Chieti, UdS, SlowFood, Fictio Arci, When I grow up I want to grow.
At 9.30 therefore institutional ceremony and laying of laurel wreaths at the monument to the Resistance in Largo Cavallerizza, followed by the homage to the plaque in memory of the Theatine partisans in Largo Martiri della Libertà and that in memory of the Theatine victims at the Technical Center of the Province , along the descent of the prisons. The conclusion will be at the War Memorial, at the Villa Comunale, at 10.45 am, followed by the flag raising. At 9.45 am ANPI Chieti photographic exhibition. It will take place along Corso Marrucino all day. At 10.30 am Liberation procession: concentration in Piazza Malta, via Arniense, corso Marrucino, piazza Trento e Trieste, via della Liberazione, Villa Comunale, Piazza Mazzini. By UDS and ANPI students. At 9.30 pm “Returning to folk”, Show by Luigi De Gregori. at the Fictio club Arci.
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