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Trento celebrates one hundred years today from the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti. Following a motion signed by numerous city councilors this morning in via Giacomo Matteotti, at the intersection with via Ortigara, there was the unveiling ceremony of a new dedication on the road name plate to which the words “Socialist deputy, martyr of freedom – 1885/1924”.
In the presence of numerous city authorities, the director of the Historical Museum of Trentino Giuseppe Ferrandi traced a heartfelt historical excursus of Matteotti, recalling his human and political parable as well as his ties with Trentino given that his father’s family was originally from the Pejo valley.
Following – before freeing the road sign from the flag of the Municipality of Trento – the deputy mayor Elisabetta Bozzarelli he said: “Matteotti’s story tells us a lot about Italy in the 1920s, about the rise of fascism, its violent and authoritarian nature and, finally, about the internal divisions of the left, incapable of overcoming ideological differences. Matteotti’s story also speaks to today’s Italy: it warns us against tolerating even the slightest erosion of rights, against justifying any violence, against entrusting ourselves to a supposedly charismatic leader who would have the task of speeding up the resolution of problems while saving on costs of democracy. What strikes me about this whole affair is the impunity enjoyed by the instigators and perpetrators of the crime. His life and his fate alone are enough to dispel that idea – which resurfaces today – of a Fascism which, before the racial laws and the alliance with Hitler, was all in all ‘moderate'”.
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The ceremony was attended by a large audience of some school groups, representatives of the Alpini, the Anpi, the Carabinieri and the Red Cross, the trade unions as well as many ordinary citizens.
The celebrations will continue at 8.30 pm – in the internal courtyard of Palazzo Geremia – with “State crime”theatrical recital created by the Armonia club in collaboration with the Trentino historical museum foundation and the choral “Bella Ciao”. The theatrical work tries to tell the profiles “parallels” of Matteotti and his murderer, Amerigo Dumini, highlighting his links with the top leaders of the regime in what was a “state crime”.
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