“The dead, the images of Bologna station devastated, the ferocious attack on the coexistence of Italians, have left an indelible mark, on August 2, 1980, in the identity of the Republic and in the conscience of the Italian people. Memory is not only a duty but is the conscious expression of that citizenship expressed in the constitutional values that terrorist violence wanted to attack and destroy". Thus the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella remember the Bologna massacre 43 years ago.
Mattarella and the Bologna massacre of 2 August 1980
“One of the most tragic events in our republican history took place in Bologna. An incurable wound, a permanent warning to be delivered to the younger generations together with the values of the democratic response of our homeland, which have allowed the redemption and, in the unity of our community, the safeguarding of the common good", he adds the head of state.
“With profound feelings of solidarity, forty-four years after the attack, we join the families of the victims and the city of Bologna, the theater of a ruthless neo-fascist subversive strategy nourished by complicity nestled in subversive cliques that attempted to attack the freedom conquered by the Italians ”.
