SAN SEVERINO MARCHE (MACERATA) (ITALPRESS) – “The 25th of April” we celebrate “the feast of all Italian lovers of freedom”. To say it is President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, during the Ceremony of the 81° Anniversary of Liberation in San Severino Marche from where “we intend to emphasize – together with the character of our firm unity – our determination in the defense of our freedoms, our convinced openness to share, with other peoples, the values of justice and peace. Moving is not a celebratory feeling of manner. Even less the claim of a story written in obedience to abstract ideological positions. To move is amor of Patria – Mattarella continues -. What, with immense sacrifice, had to bear witness to the military left behind, in the absence of orders after September 8, 1943. The young people who fled the bands of the 16th Italian Social Republic and who joined in partisan formations. The peasants who were torn to the earth to be commanded to work on the so-called Gothic Line, the last attempt of the Hitler Reich to delay the defeat – remember – . The women, the families towards which he was thrown, even in these districts, blind violence. The priests who were killed for retaliation, such as Don Enrico Pocognoni, Medal of Gold on the Civil Merit, pastor of Braccano of Matelica. The Carabinieri who gave life. This is the story, written with their lives. From these Italians”.
The Head of State citing the American Writer, William Faulkner who “ammoned in his ‘Requiem for a nun’ that ‘the past is never dead, it is not even past’. What happened does not fade but lives in the consequences it has produced. The past has shaped the present. That is why the Republic is worth the commitment it exhorts: now and always Resistance!”. Then a long passage on peace. “The dictatorships that had unleashed the Second World War had made war rhetoric a value. Against their design, from the dead among the civilian population, from the fallen soldiers, from the victims of the concentration camps, a single invocation arises: peace. Peace for every person. Peace as the right of every people. Peace for every country. This is the sense of the Resistance. To oppose the violence of man on man. We are here because, on the rubble of a dictatorial regime, also in this place are the roots of the Republic – he points out -. Born eighty years ago, from the free choice of Italian citizens and citizens, solemnly sanctioned by the institutional referendum. Born on the horrors of the war, on the opposition to an occupant and to redeem the ounce of the collaborators who had joined him by favouring the party on the Homeland. Republic, born to express hope and the start of a better future. The populations of the many cities and villages of the peninsula were able to create a new Italy, towards a country where ‘good morning really means good morning’ to use the words with which Vittorio De Sica concluded ‘Miracle in Milan’. This was the result of eighty years of peace, development, progress, distinctive signs of the values collected in the Constitution of our country, so dear to the Italians,” Mattarella said.
The Head of State also recalls that in fighting with the Italians there were partisans of many nations, “because freedom and justice are causes that do not know borders. And we cannot be indifferent to them. Just as, to unite populations and resistors, in each country, it was the common aspiration to peace. It was to respond to this heartfelt call for peace “that the international community designed, with the UN, to seek to free the world from the nightmare of war and, with the design of European unity, to free our continent. In recent years we are witnessing, painfully, anti-historical ties of fading if not even to remove those paths. Forgetting or ignoring that reacting to war among peoples means giving confidence to common institutions of peace, making them more authoritative and efficient: a commitment today, in this period, much more indispensable – he observes -. Just as for that work of building peace through the cooperation that Italians and European peoples have made on the ashes of Nazi fascism and the ruins of Soviet communism.” Finally, Mattarella recalls that Italy “reports around its Constitution, looks with confidence to the challenges of the future, along with other European peoples.”.
In the municipality of Maceratese, the Head of State laid a crown of bay at the Monument to the Falls of the Resistance.
MATTARELLA DEPONE CORONA DI ALLORO ALL’ALTARE DELLA PATRIA
The President of the Republic had previously laid a crown of laurel at the altar of the Homeland. Present, among others, the president of the Council Giorgia Meloni, the presidents of Senate and Chamber Ignazio La Russo and Lorenzo Fontana, the President of the Constitutional Court Giovanni Amoroso, the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto. After the ceremony of the honors and the execution of the hymn of Italy the head of the State laid the crown on the tomb of the unknown militia.
– photo Quirinale –
(ITALPRESS).
