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Controls and clean-ups with over 600 law enforcement officers on the ground in the capital alone. There is maximum attention for the celebrations of April 25th, with streets even more divided this year by the conflict in the Middle East. In Rome the security plan has already come to life. The entire area of Porta San Paolo, a symbolic place of the Roman resistance, is under the lens, where at 8 in the morning the Jewish Brigade lays a wreath of flowers. Around two hundred people are expected, including prominent members of the community. And at the same time, a few meters away, Palestinian students, movements, antagonists and university collectives met for an “anti-fascist and anti-Zionist” demonstration. «Against every form of colonialism, alongside the Fedayeen who fight the Zionist occupier, for the liberation of Palestine. Now and always resistance” underlined by the Palestinian student movement, launching the mobilization. And the police will pay maximum attention to this coincidence to avoid tensions and violent protests.
The ANPI procession in Rome without the Jewish community
Around two thousand participants are expected, however, in the traditional Anpi procession which starts at 10 from Largo Bompiani and will arrive at Porta San Paolo, where a stage will be set up for speeches, including that of Roberto Salis (Ilaria’s father, the activist held in prison in Hungary for 13 months on charges of harming two far-right militants, who will run with Avs for a seat in Strasbourg). An event in which the Jewish community will not participate, as has already happened for some years.
The demonstration in Milan with Schlein
There will also be high attention in Milan where the national demonstration will, as always, be opened by deportees and anti-fascist brigades, including the Jewish one which in recent years has almost always been the subject of protests and which, in light of the situation in Gaza, this year promises to be more massive. Behind the partisans the banner ‘Cease fire everywhere’ will be displayed, which has created quite a bit of controversy, then the trade unions, the political forces such as the Democratic Party present with the secretary Elly Schlein, the various associations and the Palestinian community. The leader of Action Carlo Calenda And Benedetto Della Vedova of Più Europa will instead march with the Jewish Brigade.
Mattarella in the Tuscan town of the Nazi massacre
The president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, after the ceremony in Rome with the laying of the laurel wreath at the Altar of the Fatherland, he will transfer by helicopter to Tuscany to be in Civitella Valdichiana (Arezzo) together with Minister Crosetto. The location was identified by the Quirinale to remember another terrible Nazi massacre carried out in June 1944 which cost the lives of 244 civilians. A classic Nazi retaliation to a partisan attack that caused the death of three German soldiers. The morning of the Head of State has been entirely planned and an entire village awaits him with the tricolor flag displayed in the windows for days already. Mattarella will go to the Hall of Memory, then to the church for a moment of reflection and to the site of the massacre, after which he will reach the tensile structure in the square. Furthermore, around 40 relatives of the victims of the massacre will also be present, coming from other cities and abroad. They are direct family members, first degree, as grandchildren and children of those killed in the 1944 massacre
This year too, the geography of the initiatives and the map of the leaders’ presence provide an interpretation of a celebration that struggles to be shared. The president of the council Giorgia Meloni will remember April 25th in Rome, participating in the ceremony at the Altare della Patria with the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the presidents of the Senate Ignazio the Russian and of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana. The leader of the League Matteo Salvini he will be in Milan to present his book. In the last few hours, however, you have assured that you will also participate “in one of the official initiatives” in Milan “to remember the fallen thanks to whom we are free to speak today”. While the president of the M5s Giuseppe Conte will be in Rome, at an event promoted for the “Resistance Festival”. On the imprint of memory, the choice of the deputy prime minister and leader of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani, which will be at the Fosse Ardeatine. The Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano instead it will be in Rome, at the museum in via Tasso, where those rounded up destined for the Fosse Ardeatine were locked up after the attack in via Rasella. The Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi will be in Frosinone for the ceremony awarding the gold medal for civil merit to the Province. As tradition, and in accordance with the appeal launched by the newspaper Il Manifesto, the leaders of the left will be in Milan.
