«Salvo D’Acquisto’s act was far more glorious. But I’m not talking about the events of many years ago from now on»- Corriere.it

Enough, I’m tired. From now on I will no longer speak of historical facts, only of current events, and I expect that I will be judged on what I do and say on current issues, not on the past about which, if anything, I will speak with historians and not with reporters. So don’t ask me any more questions about these things because I do not answer.

late afternoon and Ignazio La Russa a river in flood. He didn’t expect the storm after his podcast interview Free Daily with the co-director Pietro Senaldi, during which he had talked a little bit about everything, too somehow opening up to gay adoptions, and not taken for granted by a right-winger like me. I said that I prefer the adoptions of heterosexual couples but also that perhaps a meeting point can be found. it was just aopportunity to talkAnd. And instead? And instead everyone sticks to one wordthey mystify it, they act indignant, part one and all ready with the train of statements behind them, like children in elementary school… I never said “ignoble act” on Rasella street. There were also trials, there are studies on that action, but that’s enough, I don’t feel like talking about these things anymore. Because the truth is that the oppositions mount cases on nothing.

Not so much about nothing: define a band of musicians the Nazi soldiers and inglorious page of the Resistance the action in via Rasella provoked not only a earthquake in the opposition, but also has the reaction of the Jewish community: Here – he replies – this I’m sorry, I’m sorry if Ruth Dureghello, whom I respect and appreciate, was disappointed. Perhaps I could have specified better that they were actually Nazis, yes, but it seemed obvious to me. But I could actually be more specific about that. But my intention was precisely to extinguish the absurd controversy that had arisen over Meloni’s words, not to stoke it. Because if I had wanted to go to via Rasella I would have said something else…. That is? Which indeed there were far more glorious than acts of the Resistanceas the sacrifice of Salvo D’Acquisto, who handed himself over to the Nazis without having done anything just to save the lives of innocent citizens. And I could have remembered that in via Rasella it was not a face-to-face firefight with the Nazis: it was a battalion returning to barracks hit with a bomb, and two innocent bystanders, Italians, also died… Yet I didn’t tell you these things, precisely because I didn’t want problems to arise, I wanted to close them. I, who know the story, would mention others of glorious acts….

Giorgia Meloni, he says, has not heard from her, but La Russa seems to rule out that anyone can reproach him for anything. He did so, he considers himself the most secular of the right and therefore somehow the most dialoguing but nothing, he regrets, they don’t understand him: Loro vthey just want to mount controversyabout things from 70 years ago, instead of judging me for how I do my job. However, since he is anything but naive, he is already preparing something ahead of April 25th. Will you be present at the celebrations? I have never said that. I said I’ve been there in the past but now I won’t say anything. What to do you will know on April 22, 23, not before. And he adds: Stit’s a surprise....