“40 years have passed and finally our desire to have truth begins to come true, thanks to the work of the General Prosecutor of Bologna who followed the money of Licio Gelli and analyzed the digitized amount of documents we provided him”. So the president of the association for the victims of the massacre of August 2, 1980 Paolo Bolognesi, from the commemoration stage in Piazza Maggiore. “Those magistrates, 40 years later, have honored another great magistrate, Mario Amato. We say two things to those magistrates: thank you, we will never leave you alone”.
“Apologies” from the state “are the only words that have a semblance of decency, after 40 years of immutable pain experienced by family members you can only apologize,” said the deputy interior minister Vito Crimi.
“We need truth,” said the Senate president Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati talking to some relatives of the victims. “Being here with you today is a strong emotion. By now, after 40 years of words, we are all saturated,” said the President of the Senate.
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Mattarella: need for truth and justice – “On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the massacre of the station, which caused eighty-five deaths and over two hundred wounded, I wish – after a few days from my visit to Bologna and from the meeting in the place of the attack – to reaffirm the closeness, solidarity and participation in the pain of the families of the victims and in the city of Bologna, so seriously affected by the heinous and criminal terrorist gesture, while reaffirming the duty of memory, the need for full truth and justice and the need for a tireless work to defend the principles of freedom and democracy, “says the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
Count: tearing the veil that separates the truth – “Forty years after the massacre in Bologna. We are at the side of family members, of those who believe in the state, of magistrates committed to definitively tearing the veil that separates us from the truth. We owe it to the 85 innocent victims, we owe it to ourselves”. The Prime Minister wrote it on Twitter Giuseppe Conte.
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