From "victim of political violence" to "sinister symbol of neo-fascist movements". Even in Cagliari, slow but inexorable, the controversy is mounting over the naming of a square after Sergio Ramelli, the militant of the Youth Front, who died at the age of 19 in 1975, after a beating by some militants of the Avanguardia Operaia, a formation of the then extra-parliamentary left. A right-wing victim of the years of lead that the municipal council led by mayor Paolo Truzzu wanted to remember with the dedication of the small clearing between via Grazia Deledda and via Alghero, the triangle in front of what was the Bar Europa in its last location.

A decision that is criticized by the provincial secretary of the Democratic Party, Jacopo Fiori. Who sees in Ramelli a "boy killed barbarically, unjustly, with unprecedented and senseless violence 50 years ago, and yet now elevated (unfortunately for him) to a symbol and fetish of the most vulgar and camaraderie of the right , the one without shame". For Fiori «the latest legacy of Truzzu is cloying, as he hypocritically used toponymy as a club, in reality only useful to legitimize and guarantee visibility and political space to the neo-fascist groups whose hair is smoothed by his political party».

The municipal councilor of Possibile (centre-left), Francesca Mulas, also intervenes on the topic, according to which Ramelli's name «has today been transformed into a pretext for clearly fascist demonstrations: in Milan on several occasions hundreds of people march in his memory with a Roman salute, choirs and performances that recall fascism". From a victim of hate, for Mulas, «the young Milanese has become a sinister symbol of the neo-fascist movements which in his name exhibit the usual language made up of slogans and gestures of the twenty years which with pacification and the memory of the victims of violence have very little to do. Who can guarantee us that even this corner of Cagliari will not be transformed into a place for nostalgic neo-fascists?".

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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