The plaque in the square named after Sergio Ramelli, a militant of the Youth Front who died in 1975 in Milan at the age of 19 following an attack by some militants of the extra-parliamentary extreme left, was defaced in Cagliari .
Unknown persons with a spray can made Ramelli's name and surname illegible and the reason for the title decided by the former mayor Paolo Truzzu: " Victim of political violence" .
A gesture that comes, not surprisingly, on the day on which the 49th anniversary of the young man's death occurs and on which two demonstrations are planned in Cagliari. A torchlight procession to remember him from Via Dante to the new square, with the laying of a laurel wreath. And, as a counterbalance, an anti-fascist demonstration in Piazza Garibaldi. Not far from Piazza Ramelli.
Truzzu himself , last March 23, as mayor, discovered the plaque amid controversy . The proposal in the council was made by councilor Salvatore Sirigu, also an FdI, and was immediately contested by the centre-left.
The PD provincial secretary Jacopo Fiori attacked the majority the day after the inauguration: «It is the same one that rejected the proposal to name a street after Gino Strada. A boy killed barbarously, unjustly, with unprecedented and senseless violence 50 years ago and now elevated, unfortunately for him, to a symbol and fetish of the most boorish and camaraderie of the right, the one without shame ."
Francesca Mulas (Possibile), said that Sergio Ramelli was " a victim of the climate of hatred, hit for his political ideas ". But, he added, today «his name has become a pretext for clearly fascist demonstrations . In Milan to remember him, hundreds of people parade with Roman greetings, choirs and performances that recall fascism. Who can guarantee us that this corner of Cagliari too will not be transformed into a place for those nostalgic for fascism?".
