Precisely on Remembrance Day, Bruno Segre, lawyer, journalist and partisan with the name of 'Elio' in the formations that participated in the liberation of Caraglio and Cuneo, died in Turin at the age of 105.
Born in Turin on 4 September 1918, he graduated in law in 1940, but, due to the racial laws, he was unable to practice the profession of lawyer because he was the son of a Jewish parent.
Arrested in 1942 and detained for a few months in Turin's Nuove prison, in 1944 he was imprisoned again in the barracks in via Asti, in Turin, home of the political investigative office of the National Republican Guard.
He was also a city councilor of Turin, group leader of the Socialist Party, from 1975 to 1980. Among his many political and legal battles for civil rights, the one in favor of the divorce law for which he rented a plane to launch thousands of posters of propaganda about the city.
"On Remembrance Day, Bruno Segre leaves us, a man from Turin who dedicated his life to anti-fascism, first in the Resistance and then in his tireless narration to younger people. We lose a reference and a source of inspiration for our community".
Thus, on X, the M5s deputy and former mayor of Turin
Chiara Appendino
adds: "Goodbye, Bruno".
"Bruno Segre left us: today, on Remembrance Day and on the opening day of the judicial year in Turin, where during the years of the racial laws Segre was forbidden to practice the profession of lawyer. His passing is a further warning for all of us to defend, every day, the values of democracy, anti-fascism and freedom".
Thus the president of the Piedmont Region,
Alberto Cirio
on the death of Bruno Segre, partisan, lawyer, journalist, politician, who passed away this morning in Turin at the age of 105.
"Libertarian socialist, lawyer who defended the 'first' conscientious objector, Pietro Pinna, and above all city councilor in Turin and unparalleled protagonist of social and civil life in our city from the post-war period to today. Partisan, lawyer, tireless militant, a comrade and master moved by immense curiosity and an insatiable hunger for freedom and hope. You leave on Memorial Day, in a dark moment, but you will always be light. Bye Bruno, giant of anti-fascism".
This is how
Marco Grimaldi
, vice president of the Green and Left Alliance in the Chamber, remembers Bruno Segre.
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