The controversy surrounding the Remigration Summit does not subside: after the demonstrations against the far-right gathering held last Saturday in Gallarate, Alessandro Gassman, son of Vittorio, after whom the theatre that hosted the meeting of the European far-right is named , has now also entered the fray. He has proposed extreme measures to "avoid ethnic substitution" in Europe.
«Remove my father's name from the Teatro Condominio» , wrote the actor, son of Vittorio Gassman, in a post addressed to Andrea Cassani, mayor of the town in the Varese area that hosted «the international meeting of European far-right parties (neo-fascists and Nazis)» .
"If your intention is to continue to host demonstrations with racist and illiberal slogans in a place of culture," said Alessandro Gassmann, " I ask you to remove my father's name from the aforementioned theater, because my father had relatives deported and killed by the Nazi-fascists . Thank you."
The mayor of the Northern League replied by writing that Vittorio Gassman , "an eclectic man of culture, was never afraid to express his political affiliation and like all people of value who have made the history of our country, he probably would not have fought the ideas of others with a priori censorship but with the strength of more convincing ideas ".
"The fact that a cultural association of right-wing youth has organized a summit, paying for the hall, does not seem to me to be an affront to the figure of the great Vittorio Gassman," added the mayor, addressing Alessandro Gassmann directly. "Gallarate - Cassani emphasized - has always been a democratic city with great attention to culture. We can boast of having four theaters, two museums and we are among the few cities not capitals to have a music conservatory. We have invested a lot, for many years, in culture and one of the most beautiful places of culture in the city bears the name of his father. This is a tribute from Gallarate to a great man and a great artist ."
(Online Union)
