La Russa recalls Ramelli in Milan: “I won’t answer about Roman greetings”. You tonight the procession of the far right

A wreath in memory of Sergio Ramelli was placed today in Milan by Mayor Giuseppe Sala in the presence of the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa. Like every year, on April 29, the city remembers the 18-year-old member of the Youth Front who was killed in 1975 by a group of Avanguardia Operaia militants. In the gardens named after the student, considered a victim of the Piombo years, the second office of state took the opportunity to call for “national reconciliation”.

This message was inspired by the inscription on the stump, which La Russa photographed and showed to reporters from his mobile phone: “In memory of the young Sergio Ramelli – he read aloud -, in the name of a national reconciliation that unites in a only mercy on all the innocent victims of our history as a warning to future generations”. Because in addition to memory, there is also a need “not to transfer to today the contrasts, conflicts and deep divisions that no longer have a reason to exist”. The flowers were placed by Mayor Sala, a gesture that made La Russa “very happy”. «Reconciliation means a lot – said the mayor -, we must be capable of putting it into action on all sides. It is normal, right and even nice for politics to divide and see things differently, but the confrontation must be based on non-violence and respect for the words of others”.

This is a point of view on which the mayor cannot “not support what the president of the Senate says, that a way must be found to reconcile this country”. La Russa – who last year had already participated as a senator of the Brothers of Italy in the commemoration together with Giorgia Meloni who was not yet prime minister and Sala – was asked to comment on the Roman salute that is done every April 29 by far-right militants at the evening procession. “I won’t answer – he said -, today is Sergio Ramelli’s day and this is not a press conference”. At the end of the ceremony there was then a brief moment of tension, when a protester started shouting “Fascists at home” and “Long live April 25th”. Insulted by various participants present at the gardens, the woman was removed shortly after and the commemoration ended in a calm atmosphere. Immediately afterwards, the lawyer Enrico Pedenovi, provincial councilor of the MSI killed by a group linked to Front Line the year following Ramelli’s death, was also recalled in Viale Lombardia.

The Milanese judge Guido Salvini also took part in the deposition of the second wreath of flowers: «I think a tribute to all the young people of both sides and also to the police officers who fell in that atrocious war is important Civil War of the Seventies”. The procession organized by far-right militants, including Movimento Nazionale, Casapound and Loyalty-Action in memory of Carlo Borsani, Ramelli and Pedenovi, leaves from Piazzale Gorini at 8pm. Like last April 29, this year too the demonstrators will arrive in via Paladini under Ramelli’s house, where last year they made the ritual of the “present” with the three Roman greetings. In the afternoon, however, an anti-fascist garrison began in Piazzale Dateo, organized by the Anpi to remember the communist militant Gaetano Amoroso who was stabbed on 27 April 1976 and died three days later. To those who asked the mayor if even today, as every year, on April 29, the city is divided, he replied: “Yes, it is quite clear that it is a bit like this”.