"Forty-six years ago the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro, slaughtering five men of the escort. In the moving memory of these Servants of the State, it is necessary to reiterate the need to always defend freedoms and democracy against every form of terrorism and political violence.
It is very serious that, even today and even in universities, there is someone who winks at the Red Brigades".
This was stated by deputy prime minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini on the anniversary of the Via Fani massacre.
"One of the darkest pages of our Republic", the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa defines it: "That day the attack on the State, on our democracy, reached its highest point. It is our duty not to forget, it is our task to pass on the pain that the terrorism and the Years of Lead caused but also the strength with which our Nation was able to react".
"A prayer for the victims of that massacre, which struck at the heart of our country, leaving deep scars in our history", says the president of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, on social media.
Remembering those murders of the Red Brigades, the vice president of the Chamber Anna Ascani, deputy of the Democratic Party, underlines that "the bloody terrorist madness wrote one of the most tragic pages in republican history".
The vice president of the Senate Licia Ronzulli, of FI, remarks that "the war on terrorism, on every kind of terrorism, can be bloody but must be fought daily with strength and courage, without misunderstandings, to make the reasons for freedom and democracy prevail".
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