Ancona, 25 April 2024 – Liberation Day, the Doric mayor, Daniele Silvetti, on his first April 25th with the tricolor sash on. Unrest above the Passetto due to a Pro Palestine procession. “It is a deeply felt Liberation Day, a celebration that we want to keep current beyond the international context,” said the mayor, who governs the city’s first centre-right administration. Also in the audience was his predecessor, the former mayor Valeria Mancinelli.
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Lots of people at the demonstration
“Today we celebrate the liberation of our country from dictatorship – he continued – and for us it is a great opportunity National unity and the people of Ancona do their part with an authentic testimony that goes beyond exploitation and partisan distinctions”. Before wearing the tricolor sash, Silvetti said that on April 25th he was truly experiencing it: “Mine, before, was a secluded presence, naturally non-institutional. Last year I also participated and beyond the Covid years, we used to go down with the family and watch as ordinary citizens.”
For the Doric president of the Anpi, Tamara Ferretti “this is an important day, a day of freedom, of democracy and of the unity of this country, of the Italian people. Who in a moment of national recovery has rebuilt the conditions to say enough to the dictatorship, to the war and let’s start a different history and path again. That of the flag for which the fighters of the first and second Risorgimento had already fought”. “The message is that ofunity and peace – continued Ferretti –. We live in times in which we see conflicts and wars again. This morning I was listening to what was also happening in Iran, where last night they sentenced to death a young blogger who had been the creator of the music of Iranian women with the cry of woman, life, freedom. This April 25th must mark the fact that people want peace and want to live in freedom and democracy. In Iran, as in Afghanistan, in Israel, in Palestine and Ukraine, where there are still conflicts that martyr the populations.”
Disorders, around 10.30, for a improvised Pro Palestina march. “They prevent us from talking about Palestine and telling the truth. Let us pass”, shouted the demonstrators, contained by a cordon of soldiers, including police and carabinieri. “You are not allowing us access to the April 25 ceremony because we cannot talk about Palestine. Nobody wants to talk about Palestine.” Flags of peace, hands colored red to symbolize blood and Palestinian banners, the Pro Palestina procession also saw the participation of the municipal councilor of Altra idea di città, Francesco Rubini. “Our demonstration for Palestine? We would have done it anyway, even if the center-left had been in government. Because the values and what we tried to say today have the exact same value with both the center-right and the center-left. Are you leaning towards the centre-left on certain issues? I think there could be, but it is a fact that the only political force represented here was ours, that of the Other idea of the city”.
“We took to the streets to say that we find it incredible that on April 25th, Liberation Day from Nazi-Fascismwe cannot bring about the greatest resistance that exists in the world today, which is that of Palestinians against genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government. It’s also incredible that they blocked us – explains Rubini – Because we were just a few people, with our faces uncovered, in one peaceful protest. We just wanted to open a banner and bring this request into the procession.”
