Investigations underway into the attack suffered on the night between Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 April at the ANPI headquarters in Legnanooutraged by the posting of a banner that mimics the exploits of the accountant Ugo Fantozzi by Paolo Villaggio (“The Resistance is a crazy c….”) – of which the State Police found no trace during night checks – and with a lot of manure deposited right in front of the shop windows on via Ciro Menotti.
Banner and manure against the ANPI headquarters in Legnano for April 25th
Meanwhile, however, from the square that celebrated the 79th anniversary of the Liberation came firm condemnation for the gesture, which also has a precedent in a banner put up last year, again on the night of April 25th. «There is someone who thinks he can earn a place in the sun, a bit of visibility, by making gestures that he considers sensational – underlined the mayor Lorenzo Radice when opening the official ceremony in Piazza San Magno-, which they certainly also create a certain concern and indignationbut he didn’t understand – and I’m referring to what happened last night in front of the ANPI headquarters, that he was just a puppet, a marionette moved by someone higher up, and who, like marionettes, has the head full not even of that manure they threw in front of the ANPI headquarters last night, but of sawdust».
Harsh condemnation also from Mario Principe, general secretary of the CGIL Ticino Olona and member of the board of the ANPI “Mauro Venegoni” section of Legnano, who spoke of «shameful and ignoble gesture which saw the ANPI headquarters in Legnano defaced». «Whoever attacks the ANPI – reiterated Principe in his speech – it offends the memory of those who paid with their own lives or those of their children to free our country from the Nazi-fascist dictatorship. I say it forcefully: in this land there is and will be no room for the enemies of the democratic and anti-fascist values of the Constitution.”
