(ANSA) - ROME, 02 MAY - "A senseless war cannot question the spiritual and cultural ties that, over the centuries, have been strongly intertwined in the world of culture in Europe.
The unfortunate choice of the Russian Federation to resort to the brutality of violence and war cannot and will not tear apart those precious ties between the European peoples that culture has helped to build and consolidate ".
President Sergio Mattarella said this on the occasion of the David diDonatello.
The head of state underlined that "due indignation and condemnation certainly cannot concern culture, great spirits of the past and their works, which have given so much to the civilization of the whole world. It would be counterproductive for our Italy and our Europe.
Tearing apart European culture - he concluded - would mean following that logic of aggression ". (ANSA).