also pay homage to the sinkholes. The gesture of La Russa, on his knees in Basovizza-Corriere.it

THEThe memory of the victims of the Foibe will land on the stage of the Sanremo Festival today, in day of their remembrance. The artistic director Amadeus let it be understood, without giving further details, when questioned yesterday at the press conference: «There are many crucial issues and none is less important than another – he said -. We’ll see what to do tomorrow (today, ed). It’s like when you remember names in music. We can’t do so many during the course of the festival.” A vague commitment that will most likely find an answer on tonight’s evening, that of the duets. The event was first solicited by Carla Isabella Elena Cace, president of the Dalmatian National Association, who remarked that “even today only one in five boys can answer correctly the question of what Foibe are”.

The same request has found a voice in the political world. Starting from the group leader of Fratelli d’Italia in the Chamber, Thomas Foti,
who launched the idea of ​​​​playing the song “1947” by Sergio Endrigo, who in that song had told the drama of leaving his homeland. The appeal was re-launched by other exponents of FdI and by the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano who, premising that he was “very respectful of the autonomy of art and the work of artists”, asked those in charge of the event for a space to cultivate memory, “the only antidote to ensure that tragedies like these never happen again”. Even the Undersecretary of Education, Paola Frassinetti (FdI) said she expected that this terrible tragedy would be dutifully remembered. While the vice president of the Senate, Maurizio Gasparri (FI) hoped for a “strong signal”. Raffaella Paita, president of Action-Iv in the Senate, also sided in favor of a remembrance in Sanremo. Among the artists, the singer Simone Cristicchi took a position, guest tonight in one of the duets and author of Warehouse 18a play that recounts the drama of the exodus: “The question is delicate – he said -, it sometimes seems like giving alms when remembering February 10”.

Meanwhile, the premier, Giorgia Meloni, yesterday he signed the decree for the establishment, at the prime minister’s office, of the coordination committee for the celebrations of the Day of Remembrance in memory of the victims of the sinkholes and the exodus from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia. From 18 today to dawn tomorrow Palazzo Chigi will be illuminated with the tricolor and the phrase “I remember” will be projected on the facade. The official celebration of Remembrance Day will take place at the Quirinale, in the presence of Sergio Mattarella. But already yesterday the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa went to Basovizza (Trieste): in front of the foiba, a national monument, he knelt down. He recalled the victims, persecuted “because they were Italians”, the real reason for the “Titino hatred”. While also from the Democratic Party, Stefano Bonaccini speaks of a “tragedy that marks our history, it is right to celebrate” its memory. Returning to Sanremo, Silvano Olmi, president of the «February 10 Committee», launches a proposal: to invite to the Festival Egea Haffner, the «little girl with a suitcase», immortalized in a shot that has become a symbol of the tragedy of the Julian-Dalmatian exiles, who your story in the book The little girl with the suitcase. “I don’t think they’ll ever call me – said Haffner -. But I would think about it, it would be an unparalleled sounding board».