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(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 24 – “Today Italy honors and pays homage to the memory of the 335 victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, a terrible massacre perpetrated by the Nazi occupation troops in retaliation for the partisan attack in Via Rasella. The The Ardea massacre is one of the deepest and most painful wounds inflicted on our national community and remembering what happened on that fateful March 24th eighty years ago is everyone’s duty.” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni declared this on the occasion of the anniversary of the massacre. Even the leaders of Parliament intervene: “It is our duty to preserve the memory of the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine with the killing by the Nazis of 335 people and which represents – states the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa – one of the darkest pages of the our history. What happened on March 24, 1944 is a horror before which we can only bow, trusting and working so that such an atrocity can never be repeated again.” A “terrible massacre”, for the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana – . A date symbol of the cruelty of the Nazi-fascist occupation, which must remain engraved in the collective memory and especially in that of the new generations, called to build the future in full awareness of the past”. (ANSA).
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