War doesn't stop at threshold of barbarism says Mattarella - Politics. President Sergio Mattarella said in Cassino Friday at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the town and its storied abbey in the Allied advance against German resistance up the spine of Italy in WWII.
"While a feeling of pity rises up for the dead, for the civilian victims, at the same time, a movement of repulsion cannot butarise on the part of all consciences," he said.