Among the many people who wanted to pay homage to David Sassoli, there is also a veteran who survived the bombing of San Lorenzo, the first that took place in Rome during the Second World War, by the bombers of the allied forces.
Arrived by car from Capena, about forty kilometers from the capital, supported by a stick and by her younger sister Elvira, Lucia Tomassetti, 91, in the funeral home set up in the Campidoglio, she asked and obtained to greet the wife and children of the late president of the European Parliament, known years ago at a demonstration in memory of the massacre in the populous Roman district.
"My sister is the last surviving veteran. We told the kids and his wife that we will miss him and the whole country - explains Elvira Tomassetti, who was one month old on the day of the tragedy, told by herself in the book 'July 19 bombs fall'. , donated by the two sisters to Sassoli's family -. We felt protected in Europe with him. The strength of the father must now become the strength of the children ".