MILAN – The mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala has launched an appeal for a “peaceful and cohesive” April 25th: “I make a great appeal for this April 25th to be special, with many people at peace and cohesive – he said on the occasion of a conference dedicated to the strikes of 1944 at Palazzo Marino in Milan – which has the desire to express the sacredness of this day”.
Even the national president of Anpi Gianfranco Pagliarulo, on the sidelines of the event, explained that he expects “an April 25th which, the bigger it is, the less tension there will be. I think it will be a really great April 25th. There was a very important Manifesto appeal that we signed. I trust that it will be a great moment in which memory is placed at the centre, that is, what was in the past, that 25 April 1945 – he continued – and, through memory, we arrive at the present”.
Today, according to Pagliarulo, there is “the risk of a situation that tends to slide towards circumstances of authoritarianism – he concluded – both in Italy and in other European countries. It's an opportunity for a great popular response.”
