Rome, Aug. 8 (LaPresse) – “I do not want to tarnish this commemoration with acts that I consider to be squalid propaganda. Instead, I want to remember the value of this ceremony, which honours all those who died at work, Italians and foreigners. Those who, in the immediate post-war period, were sent to work in exchange for coal in conditions that today would be a source of shame, and who lost their lives, leaving wives, children and parents far from their homeland.” Senate President Ignazio La Russa said this on the sidelines of the Bois du Cazier ceremony. “The history of Marcinelle, unlike so many Italians who learned about it only, and only partially, in 2001 thanks to Mirko Tremaglia, the minister for Italians around the world, who designated August 8 as the date commemorating all Italian victims of workplace accidents around the world, was something I already knew about before – he added -. My community has always commemorated it. There are those who turned their backs on that ceremony for too many years, and some continue to do so.”
Marcinelle, La Russa: “There are those who turned their backs in the past and those who still do”
Rome, Aug. 8 (LaPresse) – “I do not want to tarnish this commemoration with acts that I consider to be squalid propaganda. Instead, I want to remember the value of this ceremony, which honours all those who died at work, Italians and foreigners. Those who, in the immediate post-war period, were sent to work in exchange for coal in conditions that today would be a source of shame, and who lost their lives, leaving wives, children and parents far from their homeland.” Senate President Ignazio La Russa said this on the sidelines of the Bois du Cazier ceremony. “The history of Marcinelle, unlike so many Italians who learned about it only, and only partially, in 2001 thanks to Mirko Tremaglia, the minister for Italians around the world, who designated August 8 as the date commemorating all Italian victims of workplace accidents around the world, was something I already knew about before – he added -. My community has always commemorated it. There are those who turned their backs on that ceremony for too many years, and some continue to do so.”