MESTRE – A real fighter has passed away. First as a partisan, then as a politician, finally as an environmentalist. There are two mourners mourning the passing of Vinicio Morini…
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Born in Mirano in November 1925, he moved to Mestre with his family in via Col di Lana in 1938. It was here that his anti-fascist political education began at the age of 16: a worker in Porto Marghera, he took part in the first riots of protest. In the same year he entered the Resistence. At 21, in 45, he was captured by the Black Brigades and brought into the house of the Fascistwhere he had been interrogated repeatedly tortured. He was then freed, together with other partisans, through the intervention of the CLN, following the liberation of the city. Partisan leader, over the years he had also taken part in the trials of fascists. In the 1960s, young leftists had found in his Modern bookshop in Piazza Ferretto, a reference point. Then it was Mirano’s turn: for about ten years, in the 70s, it was leader of the PCI in the city council. «A man of profound culture, an exceptional orator – the memory of the former mayor Gianni Fardin – little by little he moved away from politics and approached environmental issues, founding Italia Nostra. A visionary: his analyses, his ideas, his proposals from the 1970s, reread today, are extremely current.”
His “creature” was the Parauro forest. In a 1996 letter, signed together with Renzo Tonolo and addressed to the then mayor Renzo Milan, he asked the Municipality to purchase that area to create a lowland forest. Bosco which was then inaugurated about ten years later by the Fardin administration.
A gentleman warrior, Morini: always elegant in his ways, with a determination and clarity that accompanied him until his last breath. Married all his life to Milena Rizzo, who passed away a few years ago, he leaves behind his daughter Maria Teresa. The date of the funeral will be established in the next few days.
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