Genoa, Oct. 7 (LaPresse) – “Genoa is tough. I think the solidarity shown towards me also reflects a need to express something concrete, which becomes a commitment to a people subjected to genocide. I don’t believe there has been a single day in the past two years that I couldn’t define as a day of mourning. This mourning knows no boundaries. Since that day, the escalation of violence that has become a genocide of a people has taken over my life,” said Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, this evening in Genoa during a public interview at the Giardini Luzzati.
“For the Palestinians under the bombs,” she added, “there are few voices on the international stage able to speak with such clarity, but I hope no one in this city or country feels offended by bringing a reflection to the heart of a city like this, which is giving so much, igniting spirits and filling the squares. What started with the dockworkers of Genoa became a long wave that reached every city and every neighborhood.”