On the Piazza Fontana massacre, "the long procedural events have left gaps and truths not fully disclosed
. These are open wounds, not only for the families of the victims, but for the entire Republic. However, despite manipulations and misdirections, it clearly emerges from the investigation work and from the final sentences the subversive neo-fascist matrix and the deliberate attack on the democratic life of the country ". The President of the Republic,
Sergio Mattarella
,
writes this on the
fifty-second anniversary of the massacre.
"The deadly bomb that 52 years ago was detonated in the headquarters of the National Bank of Agriculture, in Piazza Fontana in Milan, destroyed innocent lives, shocked the country, started a trail of blood and terror that our community managed to stop only after years of commitment and suffering ", reads Mattarella's message." The memory of that ferocious attack remains indelible in the history of the Republic. It was conceived and executed in order to strike the democracy born from the liberation struggle, to interrupt the process of growth in participation and rights, to turn the institutions desired by the Constitutional Charter into an authoritarian sense ".
The Piazza Fontana massacre was an attack on democracy. "All this was soon clear to the city of Milan and to the national community. The united, supportive response of the people against terrorism, and against all the terrorisms that bloodied Italy after Piazza Fontana, was decisive in isolating, eradicating and thus defeating subversion ", the message continues.
"The test to which Italy was subjected was dramatic. But democracy won, and with it the values of which the Constitution is an expression prevailed. For this too it is necessary to remember. Democracy is a precious asset that must be continually defended and And the unity that our people have been able to manifest, when the aggression concerned the fundamental rights of the person and the very foundations of coexistence, constitutes a still precious heritage. Passing the baton to the younger generations means transmitting that civilization which is the result of history, culture, sacrifice and collective intelligence ".