Eight tolling of bells, as many as the number of victims killed on May 28, 1974 .
Today, in Brescia , the 48th anniversary of the Piazza della Loggia attack is commemorated, on the eve of two new judicial appointments.
On July 8, in fact, Maurizio Tramonte , a former far-right militant sentenced to life imprisonment for the massacre, carried out during an anti-fascist demonstration, will return to the courtroom before the Brescia Court of Appeal for the hearing to review the trial, while by the summer the Brescia prosecutor will ask for the indictment of Marco Toffaloni , 65 and residing in Switzerland, and of Roberto Zorzi , 68, who lives in the United States, under investigation in the new investigation into the alleged material perpetrators of the massacre, committed through a bomb hidden in a waste bin.
"The bomb that was detonated in Piazza della Loggia on the morning of May 28, 1974 was supposed to kill, sow fear, frighten the democratic forces. It was a link in that black chain of terror that claimed to threaten civil coexistence and constitutional rights, by making blood Italy ”, said the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella , in his message on the occasion of the commemoration.
"Brescia and the whole country - added the Head of State - responded with firmness and unity , opposing the solidarity of the people to the inhumanity of the terrorists. The civil conscience and the maturity of the main social, trade union and political our democracy and our civilization. The Republic's path was able to continue in the affirmation of its values, of the achievements, of participation. Terrorisms have all been defeated ".
"Without truth there can be no justice and without justice the blood of the
innocent , ”said Elisabetta Casellati, president of the Senate . Adding: "Without truth we remain tied to the shadows of a past still steeped in secrets and obscurity and we do not teach the young generations of today and those of tomorrow the true richness of that pluralism of values, rights and freedoms which is the heart of our Constitution, foundation of our democracy , cornerstone of our civilization ".
(Unioneonline / lf)