Time.news – On the season of terrorism in Italy “there are still shadows, dark spaces, complicity, not completely cleared up”: this was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in a long interview with Repubblica on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance dedicated to the victims of terrorism and massacres. “The complete truth about the years of lead is a fundamental requirement for the Republic”, he underlined. The Head of State thanked the French president, Emmanuel Macron, for the recent arrests of former Italian Red Brigades in France: “With his decision he confirmed friendship for Italy and showed respect for our democracy”, he observed, “I hope the same can happen for those who have escaped the Italian justice and live their hiding in other countries “.
A season of national solidarity
Mattarella then indicated the need for Italy to renew that “national solidarity” which allowed the Republic to prevail against subversion. “It was an asymmetrical war” and “there were clearly unacceptable positions of some intellectuals of the time that favored the spread of the myth of the ‘Betrayed Resistance’, in the likeness of D’Annunzio who helped pave the way for fascism with the mutilated Victory slogan, “said the Head of State. Black terrorism, on the other hand, “has often been an instrument, more or less conscious, of dark plots, which had the political objective of overthrowing the political axis of the country by interrupting the democratic path”. “Terrorism has not succeeded in realizing the ambition of representing a break, a watershed in the history of Italy”, underlined the President of the Republic, “the cynical plan not free from links to international subversive networks to destabilize the young democracy it has been isolated and canceled “.
The victory of democracy
“For the Head of State” the weakness of the State manifested itself above all in its unpreparedness, sometimes in infidelity, in countering a war that today we would define as asymmetrical. But it was precisely the violence against harmless and innocent people that quickly dried up the basin of consent to terrorism “. In the years of lead”it is the stature of our democracy, it is the Republic that prevailed against the subversion of its enemy in the people“, he observed.” They have been very hard years “, recalled the Head of State,” in which the institutional and social stability of our country has been severely tested. Over 400 victims in Italy, of which about 160 for massacres “, he underlines. The origin?” Certainly not from the dispute of ’68 “, according to the President of the Republic,” on the contrary. The seasons of trade union struggles, such as those of student demonstrations, which developed at the end of the 1960s, represented strong stimuli for the development of models of life inspired by greater justice and social cohesion “.
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