Schlein in Sant’Anna di Stazzema: «Not just memory, we must make the Constitution live»
Dressed in white and with a tricolor handkerchief around her neck, the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein arrived in Sant’Anna di Stazzema (Lucca), the scene of a Nazi-fascist massacre, on the occasion of the celebrations for April 25th and the commemoration of the victims. Before the ceremony, during which the Dem leader will give the final speech, Schlein met some survivors of the massacre of 12 August 1944, in which 560 people were killed, together with the mayor of Stazzema Maurizio Verona.
April 25 “is not only a moment in which to commemorate the Nazi-fascist massacres and commemorate those who joined the Resistance to allow us to live in freedom and democracy but it is also a moment in which to ask ourselves what we can do to live up to this memory and this memory that must be handed down and preserved, must pass through schools, through culture”, said Schlein speaking to journalists.
«The fruit of April 25th is our anti-fascist Constitution, President Mattarella also recalled this, and so we must make that Constitution live, even today, even in the parts where it has not yet been implemented, where some citizens still feel it distant because they feel that the right to health is not guaranteed, that the right to work and to fair and dignified pay is not guaranteed – he added – This is the work we must do to live up to that memory. Ensuring that the rights enshrined in our wonderful Constitution, born from the Resistance, reach everyone, because April 25th is the founding holiday of the Republic and it belongs to all Italians.”
“For me it is a great emotion and a great honor to be here, I thank the mayor of Sant’Anna di Stazzema for the invitation to commemorate the brutal massacre carried out here by Nazis and fascists against the defenseless civilian population – recalled the dem leader – 560 people were killed with brutal premeditation and in the most brutal way, among these 130 children, we also met some survivors”.
