He will be commemorated in Marsala on centenary of the crime of Giacomo Matteotti, young socialist deputy brutally murdered in Rome by fascist squad members. Matteotti dared to denounce the corruption and electoral fraud of Benito Mussolini’s government, committed by the nascent dictatorship.
These are the appointments:
On Tuesday 4 June, at 8.30 pm, at the Golden cinema, the film “Il delitto Matteotti”, made in 1973 by director Florestano Vancini, will be screened.
LMonday 10 June, at 6.30 pm, in Piazza Matteotti (Porta Mazara), near the toponym, the laying of the tricolor flag and a laurel wreath will take place.
The initiative was born from a spontaneous committee with the intention of enhancing the knowledge of the politician Matteotti, a true symbol of anti-fascism. The committee includes: the promoter ANPI (National Partisans Association), Italian Socialist Party, Green Europe, 5 Star Movement, Democratic Party, the Libera associations, Andè, Archè Onlus, CIF (Italian Women’s Center), Friends of the Third World, Con Te Donna, Legambiente Sicilia , Fidapa, Il Rumore delle Idee, Sapori & Colori, Storia Patria, as well as the trade union organizations CGIL, UIL and USB.
The secretary of the PSI in Marsala, lawyer. Antonio Consentino: “The anniversary of the centenary of the brutal murder of the socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti, a true symbol of anti-fascism, could not go unnoticed, especially in an illiberal political phase whose scenario seems characterized by gags and worrying, latent authoritarianism. The commemoration of 100 years since Matteotti’s killing will not remain an isolated event. This is a spontaneous committee that will also be there in the future, which will make its presence felt whenever it is useful and/or necessary in the name of Giacomo Matteotti whose courage, even at the cost of his own life, can never be forgotten, indeed it must be periodically remembered, also so that the younger generations know fully who he was and what he represented from an anti-fascist perspective and how fundamental the good of individual freedom is. Sandro Pertini said that the most imperfect of democracies is always preferable to the most perfect of dictatorships. We hope that citizens will participate en masse from the first appointment on Tuesday 4 June at 8.30pm at the Cinema Golden in Marsala, to honor a true political hero who paid a high price for having denounced, in his speech on 30 May 1924 in Montecitorio, the electoral fraud of the newly elected fascist government showed the true face of the creeping dictatorship, made up of abuses and prevarications”.
