The Italy of remembrance and exiles begins the celebrations today at 9.30 with the deposition of wreaths at Foiba n.149 in Monrupino;
then the authorities will move not far away, again on the Karst, to Basovizza, for the commemoration ceremony at the Shrine of the Foiba - National Monument, where, in addition to the local authorities, the representatives of the Committee for the Martyrs of Foibe and of the Associations are expected. array of banners and medals and banners.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on the Municipality's Facebook social channel (www.facebook.com/comuneditrieste) and by the television broadcaster Telequattro.
This will be followed by the rendering of honors to the Martyrs of the Foibe and the deposition of the crowns by the institutions and associations which will be followed by the blessing of Msgr.
Giampaolo Crepaldi, Archbishop - Bishop of Trieste to the Fallen of all Foibe.
Finally, the president of the National League of Trieste, Paolo Sardos Albertini, the mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza and the Fvg Governor, Massimiliano Fedriga, will take the floor.
From Trieste to Rome: in the afternoon in the Senate a ceremony will be held with President Sergio Mattarella in memory of the victims of sinkholes.
Speeches by the Presidents of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, and Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, are planned.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi will close the celebration.
The eve was instead marked by the controversy over a conference organized at the University for foreigners of Siena, entitled "Political use of memory and fascist revanchism: the genesis of the Day of Remembrance".
Two days ago some senators of the League presented a question to the minister of the University Cristina Messa on the legitimacy of the initiative.
"That political forces try to prevent and move against scientific initiatives is of unprecedented gravity, a demonstration of profound incivility", rector Tomaso Montanari replied, yesterday on the sidelines of the conference.
"The university - he premised him introducing the meeting - does not take sides politically. But anti-fascism is not a political position,
On Saturday a garrison for the victims of sinkholes is scheduled in Florence, promoted among others by Casaggì Destra Identitaria and National Youth, an initiative against which the Florentine Democratic network wrote to the mayor and commissioner to say "no to demonstrations organized by neo-fascist groups and neo-Nazis ".
In Verona, however, the controversy arose over a lesson for schools with the historian Eric Gobetti, author of the book 'And then the sinkholes?': In the end, Montanari recalled, "it was proposed that the lesson be transformed into a contradicting a journalist ".
An act of vandalism was finally reported by the mayor of Udine, Pietro Fontanini.
Two days after the naming ceremony of a square to Norma Cossetto, an Istrian student killed and infused in the autumn of 1943 at the age of 23, the pole with the sign was knocked down.
"There was not even time to celebrate the ceremony, scheduled for Friday, which has already manifested the violence of a certain political party", the words of Fontanini.
