URZÌ (FDI) * SOUTH TYROL: « VICTIMS OF SECESSIONIST TERRORISM, BUT NOW MAY IT BECOME A SHARED MEMORY »

2.11pm – Thursday 9 May 2024

(The following text is taken entirely from the press note sent to the Opinion Agency) –

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May the wind of change also be seized in South Tyrol to be able to reconcile with the past, which on the day that commemorates the victims of terrorism at a national level means recognizing the sacrifice of those who paid with their lives for ideological radicalism and secessionist temptations occurred on the border with Brenner with over 500 attacks and over 20 killed.

In the province of Bolzano there is not yet a place specifically dedicated to those who were hit in anti-Italian attacks, hit by splinters from anti-personnel mines or by volleys of small arms. This is the story that must be stitched together with the one that led to autonomy: these victims were innocent but at the same time useless because the path indicated by the Italian Republic led to democracy already towards reconciliation.

Today those victims do not deserve oblivion but the right moral recognition because they can be considered the solid bricks on which coexistence is based today. But they must be recognized by all parties, their martyrdom was for the Italian Republic but autonomy today must be deferential and grateful to them, above all to them.
We finally expect a clear word from all the local institutions, not just from those who have always done it like us at Fratelli D’Italia. It is an obligatory step in which we believe because we believe in the profound wind of change that is accompanying the new course in Alto Adige.

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Hon. Alessandro Urzì
Regional coordinator of Fratelli D’Italia