"We are here to remind all of us that the long trail of blood that crossed Bologna and left so many victims and wounds in our people, was aimed at hitting anti-fascist and democratic Bologna, a dam against the spread of subversive tendencies that wanted to hit ours All attempts, Massacre of 2 August, Italicus, 904, Ustica, Uno Bianca, up to the body of Marco Biagi, put together by an infamous mixture of fascism, terrorism, common crime and deviant institutions that wanted to undermine our democracy in depth ".
Thus
the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi
at the ceremony on 2 August.
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"In all these situations - added the minister in commemoration with the families of the victims of the massacre in the courtyard of Palazzo D'Accursio, before the procession to the Bologna station - our beloved Bologna held. Partisan and republican, it has always been. , once again he taught the country that our constitution is not a piece of paper, but the true foundation of our Republic and common life ".
"In all these situations - added the minister in commemoration with the families of the victims of the massacre in the courtyard of Palazzo D'Accursio, before the procession to the Bologna station - our beloved Bologna held. Partisan and republican, it has always been. , once again he taught the country that our constitution is not a piece of paper, but the true foundation of our Republic and common life ".
"Finally this year there was the trial of the principals, in the first instance he gave an important sentence, which confirmed what for us were intuitions. Now the Court of Assizes has confirmed that the Bologna massacre was financed by the lodge Masonic P2, protected by the top secret services and executed by fascist terrorists. We are beginning to have sentences it is increasingly difficult to confuse the waters with absurd tracks ".
Thus the president of the association of the families of the victims of the massacre of 2 August 1980
, Paolo Bolognesi, in his speech in the courtyard of the Municipality on the day of the 42nd anniversary.
Unlock the law that protects the victims of terrorism and massacres
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This was reiterated by the president of the association of the families of the victims of 2 August 1980 Paolo Bolognesi.
"For 18 years - he said - there has been a law passed in parliament in August 2004. Eighteen years to make it work is too long. Finally we had a law that was concluding the process with the favor of the government and all the parties. they signed ".
But "throughout this process" there would be problems with "the economic ministries that seem to be crafty".
"What is a prime reason for burying a law? Saying that it costs too much", said Bolognesi, according to whom we must avoid that the victims "have to sue to get what they deserve", he added, criticizing "the obtuseness of those ministries ".
"Eighteen years without legislation is too long,
"
From September Palazzo d'Accursio will be the headquarters of the Victims Family Association
of 2 August, because it was right to give a worthy home to this association, we chose an important space, the one that was reserved for the Morandi collection, to host the archive and welcome the schools and carry on the didactic activity.
It means keeping the association close to our heart, protecting this institution of the city. "The mayor of Bologna Matteo Lepore recalled this, from the courtyard of Palazzo d'Accursio, where the commemorations of the 42nd anniversary of the massacre at the train station began. Bologna. "Today it is very timely to protect those who fight for truth and justice, misdirections are too recent, we must protect and promote memory, which is why from September you will be here in the home of all citizens", concluded the mayor.