March on Rome, Letta: “The darkest period of democracy”

A minute of silence in front of the wreath dedicated to Giacomo Matteotti. Then long applause. A delegation from the Democratic Party, accompanied by Article1, met on Friday morning in front of the monument dedicated to the socialist deputy assassinated by Benito Mussolini. This is no coincidence, given that the march on Rome took place on October 28 a hundred years ago. Starting point of this fascist period which will only end with the Second World War. The secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta

Also present was the Secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta. “Today everyone’s commitment in politics is to remember the darkest moment and strengthen democracy – the leader of the Democratic Party told reporters – 100 years after the march on Rome, we remember the victims of fascism. Democracy ended on that day and a dark period began. We want to celebrate democracy today, tomorrow and forever.” Giacomo Matteotti was killed on the Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia. His assassination, with the march on Rome, is one of the “symbols” of the seizure of power by fascism in Italy in the 1920s.

March on Rome: the testimonies. Segre: “Fatal date in Italian history”

Many testimonies arrived on October 28, on the occasion of this date which marked the advent of the fascists in Italy. Among these, that of the senator for life Liliana Segre, survivor of the extermination camps. His message was read at the opening of the demonstration organized in Piazza Plebiscito, in Naples, by the Campania region: “A fatal date in Italian history, which marks the beginning of fascism, the greatest disaster of the national history of the last century”. “Because the commitment to peace, democracy and against fascism and totalitarianism must always go hand in hand, essential elements of a full civil conscience.”