Mattarella placed the laurel wreath at the Altar of the Fatherland
Celebrations have begun at the Altar of the Fatherland on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the Liberation. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, welcomed by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, laid a laurel wreath to pay homage to all the fallen. Also participating in the celebrations are the presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and the other high officials of the State. «Women and men of the Defense Force, on 25 April we remember with profound gratitude that generation of Italians, civilians and soldiers, who gave us back our freedom with great value and sacrifice, and reminds us of what we are today as a nation and as a community. What makes Liberation Day extraordinary is precisely this: the fact that it was born from difficult, dangerous choices, made in different contexts but united by the same sense of responsibility. It was a widespread and silent commitment, made up of faces, stories, concrete gestures; a choral path of struggle against Nazi-fascism which then oppressed our homeland and many homelands in Europe, and made possible the rebirth of Italy as a free and democratic country, from which the Republican Constitution then arose”: words of Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. The President of the Republic also laid a wreath of flowers at the Historical Museum of Liberation in via Tasso.
