Citizenship in Segre and via Almirante, it is a 'fight' in Verona

It is difficult to match the honorary citizenship of Liliana Segre, who survived Auschwitz, and the title of a road to Giorgio Almirante, signatory of the 1938 race poster in the same municipality: and so in Verona - which the senator for life reserved for high recognition, after previously approving the dedication of a road to Almirante - controversy broke out.
"With the proposal to dedicate a road to Giorgio Almirante, signatory of the race manifesto, and at the same time the honorary citizenship to Liliana Segre, who survived a Nazi extermination camp, the climax of the most shameful double-jogism is reached", attacks the Democratic Party with Alessia Rotta, vice president of the deputies Dem.
The reply of the mayor Federico Sboarina, expression of a center-right majority, is not long in coming. "Giorgio Almirante - states the first citizen - was a leader and made the history of our country and of the Italian right in the parliamentary confrontation. It is not a choice made in opposition to anyone". "The administration of Verona - he underlines - has already made its choice. It wanted to confer honorary citizenship on Liliana Segre for her personal history and for the value of what she represents, and she voted the motion by a way to Giorgio Almirante, who was a democratically elected politician by millions of Italians. I don't see what's unusual. "
The political brawl was defeated by the group leader of Verona from the left in the municipality, Michele Bertucco, who had presented the Segre motion. Verona, among other things, is a gold medal city of the Resistance. "The victims and the torturers are rewarded," added Bertucco, noting what, in his opinion, was a strange coincidence: on the day the City Council unanimously voted for citizenship in Segre, on January 16, The resolution of the Board which gave the go ahead to "Via Almirante" was also posted in the Praetorium register, after the passage to the Toponymy Commission of 5 November 2019.
Even then, with protests from opposition councilors and the Jewish community.
Mayor Sboarina says he is convinced that "as often happens, with the things that concern Verona instrumental debates are ignited, which do not help the path of pacification. We always seek controversy and pass over institutions and their democratic vote". And while a Veronese association, "the rising city", asks the prefect to stop the title of the road to the father of the MSI, the Venetian 5Stelle also attack the Scaliger majority: "Well, Liliana Segre does unwillingly decline citizenship honorary of Verona. The Veronese administration does badly to pamper nostalgic fascists ".