(ANSA) - ROME, 03 APR - At dawn on 3 April, in via Rasella in Rome, a new work by the Street Artist Laika appeared, entitled "Resignation!"
The poster depicts a Nazi soldier playing a trombone from which the word "resign!" comes out.
The work is an explicit criticism of the statements by the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa who a few days ago defined the Bozen members killed in the attack in via Rasella as a group of pensioners.
"It is unacceptable!", declares the artist, "that the second office of the State allows itself to make such statements: it is a vulgar attempt at historical revisionism. It is not the first time if we think of the phrases of Prime Minister Meloni on the massacre of the Ardeatine "Killed because Italian". Years later, transforming soldiers of the Bozen Polizeiregiment, therefore Nazis, into semi-retired musicians (impossible given the young age of the soldiers), is an insult to all the victims of Nazi-fascism (as well as all the poor musicians " semi-retired").
I don't remember reading about trombones,
violins and drums in that divia Rasella.
Instead, I remember the heroic deeds of the partisans against the invader.
A president of the Senate should, at the very least, know the history of his country.
Our grandparents fought and sacrificed their lives to put an end to the fascist dictatorship.
Some statements are intolerable.
There is no room for fascists in this country, let alone in government.
President La Russa is not worthy of representing that office: he should resign and study history well". Laika dedicates this poster to Marisa Musu, partisan, gappist, who was present in via Rasella on 23 March 1944 and "to our grandparents" who sacrificed life for a democratic country (ANSA).
