Politics
March 24, 1944
Sergio Mattarella at the Fosse Ardeatine for the 79th anniversary of the Nazi massacre
The tribute of the head of state to the 335 victims
24/03/2023
The President of the Republic laid a laurel wreath – carried on the shoulders of two Cuirassiers – on the plaque placed at the entrance of the Shrine. At the end of the ceremony, the tribute of the head of state to the 335 victims of the massacre carried out by the Nazis in retaliation after the attack of the partisans in via Rasella.
Meloni: "One of the deepest wounds, memory is a civic duty""Today Italy honors the victims of the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine. Seventy-nine years ago 335 Italians were brutally murdered by Nazi occupation troops in retaliation for the partisan attack on Via Rasella. A massacre that marked one of the deepest and most painful wounds inflicted on our national community: 335 innocent Italians massacred just because they were Italians". So the premier Giorgia Meloni. "It is up to all of us - institutions, civil society, schools and the world of information - to remember those martyrs and to tell in particular to the younger generations what happened on that terrible March 24, 1944. Memory is never a pure exercise in style but a civic duty to be exercised every day", concludes the Prime Minister.