the memory
noon, January 11, 2022 – 12:54 pm
In the days preceding his social thought for the victims of the mafia Piersanti Mattarella and Accursio Miraglia
from Chiara Marasca
There was so much Sicily in the heart of David Sassoli, the president of the European Parliament who passed away last night at the age of 65. And above all there were the “Sicilian heroes”, to whom he dedicated the latest posts published on his Facebook profile. Words from which clearly emerge the qualities and moral convictions that have made Sassoli unanimously appreciated throughout his career, as a journalist and as a politician. In the last post, which dates back to yesterday morning, Sassoli applauded the young volunteers who in record time helped the municipal employees to clean up the enchanting Scala dei Turchi, on the Sicilian coast of Realmonte, from the painting of red color poured by vandals. Dear guys, your care, your attention to the environment and to beauty is a credit to Sicily, Italy and the whole world: VERY GOOD, concluded the post.
Mafia victims
A few days earlier Sassoli had dedicated a social thought to Piersanti Mattarella, defining his murder an ignoble, terrible crime, on which it is necessary to be fully clarified, because it is not acceptable that crimes exist with impunity !. On January 4, however, a post for Accursio Miraglia, Sicilian from Sciacca, on the 75th anniversary of his murder, again at the hands of the mafia, an event that inspired “The day of the owl” of Sciascia: Catholic tenaciously engaged in social work, communist, at first an entrepreneur and then creator of the first Chamber of Labor, he believes in an honest and supportive Sicily, on the side of those in need, Sassoli remembered.
At Ars a minute of meditation
The Sicilian Regional Assembly, at the opening of parliamentary proceedings, dedicated a minute of silence to the death of the President of the EU Parliament, David Sassoli. President Gianfranco Miccich reported that due to Covid the planned visit to Palazzo dei Normanni in Sassoli had been postponed. To remember his political and civil commitment was the leader of the Democratic Party, Giuseppe Lupo, who spoke in the classroom.
In Catania flags at half mast
Leoluca Orlando, on Twitter, defined Sassoli as a protagonist of the new face and new role of the European Union in times of #pandemic, attentive to the culture of hospitality and the #Mediterranean. In Catania Salvo Pogliese wanted flags at half mast in the Town Hall as a sign of mourning: Europe and Italy lose a great politician, a valiant journalist always attentive to contemporary social issues that he has been able to interpret by showing rare qualities of balance and guarantee, to protect the value of the institutions, said the mayor, recalling the common experience of Members of the European Parliament in the last legislature, thanks to which he was able to appreciate Sassoli’s competence and grace. The Sicilian governor described him as a passionate politician, a supporter of the Europe of dialogue that fought so that the Union could actually open up to the Mediterranean, addressing its thousand problems. A man with a kind and generous trait, a curious and brilliant journalist, he leaves a mark on the European institutions for the humanity and rigor with which he has led the Strasbourg Parliament in recent years, said Nello Musumeci. Even the president of Ars Gianfranco Miccich expressed his condolences and that of the Sicilian Regional Assembly for the death of the president of the European Parliament, Davide Sassoli, a calm person, a politician respectful of the rules and a journalist always on the front line.
11 January 2022 | 12:54
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