Verona, appeal to the prefect against the naming of a road to Almirante decided by the Municipality of the right

Last January 16, the municipal council of Verona has decided to give unanimously the honorary citizenship to the senator for life Liliana Segre, survivor of the extermination camp of Auschwitz. On the same day, on the albo pretorio of the Town, was the resolution of the board of the centre-right, led by mayor Federico Sboarina, with a decision taken on January 8th, was the title of a city street to the founder of the Italian social Movement Giorgio Almirante. "You reward the victims and perpetrators", said the parent company of Verona in the Town and Left in Common, Michele Bertucco, who had presented the motion Segre. Verona is the city gold medal of the Resistance.

An association, "The city rises", has delivered to you now with an open letter to the prefect to ask him not to authorize the resolution, on the basis of a law of 1911, which on the naming of the streets leave the last word to the representative of the government. "On the political level, deems that the proposal to name a street in Almirante, in conjunction with the praiseworthy recognition to the senator Segre, exposes the whole city to the ridiculous, in addition to the indignation, setting up a sort of grotesque, anachronistic and instrumental compensation is ideological. How can the same city to celebrate it, at the same time, the victim of one of the most abominable political regimes of our century, to the nazi-fascist, and dedicate a street to one of the leaders in the direct that the same regimen?" you ask Alberto Battaggia, Luciano Butti, Gian Arnaldo Caleffi, Roberto Capuzzo, Maurizio Cimetti, Roberto Giacobazzi, Paola Marini, Anna Maria Molino, Roberto Ricciuti.

last 5 November, when the commission on toponymy had approved the go-ahead to the road Almirante, the minority - expressed by the university - had voted against it. You were raised many protests already then, of associations and of members of the opposition. The jewish community, with a note from the president of the Association Children of the Shoah, Roberto Israel, had publicly expressed his disapproval. But the junta Sboarina had pulled straight.

To propose the way to Almirante was the president of the municipal council, and member of Brothers of Italy, Cyrus, Male, supported by all the centre-right. Between them, Andrea Baggica, finished a year ago in process to get it done the roman salute in the council to representatives of "Not one less": he, at the time of the " yes " to the proposal Segre was not in the classroom.

The opposition, via Almirante has "reason legal, political and historical", as they say the founders of "The city rises". "The life, choices, values and actions of Giorgio Almirante were not in any circumstances, either during the fascist era, nor during the Republic, "the testimony of the material development and civil", a requirement explicitly provided for by the regulations in the municipal". Says Bertucco: "on the one hand, it gives a recognition to a courageous woman striving against the waves of fascsimo, on the other, customs clearance, a figure as Almirante of this racism a murderer, he was an avid and never regretted it theory, from the secretary of the editorial committee of the magazine anti-semitic and racist, the defense of The race, both from a signatory of the Manifesto of Race in 1938".

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