Five days have passed and instead of calming down, the debate on what happened last Saturday in Rovenaud di Valsavarenche, during the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the death of Emile Chanoux, who was found dead with evident signs of violence on 18 May 1944 in a detention cell in Aosta, after being arrested by the fascist police.
The facts are known: the organization of the ceremony by the Presidency of the Regional Council included the singing performance of Philippe Milleret (photo below), singer-songwriter from the Aosta Valley and leader of the Pays d’Aoste Souverain-PAS independence movement. The artist-politician sings a piece (written in 2019) in which he defines Rome as “enemy of the Aosta Valley” and “dustbin”. The President of the Council, Renzo Testolin and the Aosta Valley MP Franco Manes assist in silence. A few hours later, Milleret himself published a post on Facebook claiming that it was “unacceptable that the mayors of the Aosta Valley were forced to wear the tricolor sash” and that on the occasion of the Chanoux celebrations “several mayors told me that they did not want to wear it but are forced to do it”.
Alex Micheletto, president of Celva-Cpel, the assembly of local authorities in the Aosta Valley, immediately distances himself from the statements of the pro-independence singer-songwriter; President Testolin and deputy Manes follow him closely.
But now the omelette was done: Forza Italia VdA and Fratelli d’Italia did not miss the opportunity to attack the regional majority and above all the institutional representatives of the Aosta Valley present at the celebrations, guilty according to the centre-right for not having interrupted or at least immediately stigmatized Milleret’s ‘provocation’.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Forza Italia regional councilors Pierluigi Marquis and Mauro Baccega spoke in the same indignant tone in the Valle Council (which was followed by a mocking reply on Facebook by the PAS singer-songwriter).
Today, Thursday 23 May, the story ended at Palazzo Montecitorio: the Honorable Alessandro Urzì (FdI) presented a question reviewing the facts and controversies that followed, underlining that Philippe Milleret’s performance at the ceremony had been organized by a company privately paid by the Region and therefore with public money.
The Undersecretary of the Interior Nicola Molteni urged a reference to the constitutional values of national unity and the strengthening of the principle of loyal collaboration which must inspire relations between the State and the Regions”.
HERE IS THE VIDEO OF THE ILLUSTRATION OF THE QUESTION
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