The murder of Giacomo Matteotti was
an attack on parliament, President Sergio Mattarella said on the
100th anniversary of the assassination by Fascist thugs of the
Socialist MP who 11 days previously had denounced Fascist
election fraud and violence in the Lower House.
"The kidnapping, one hundred years ago, of the Socialist MP
Giacomo Matteotti, which was followed by his cruel, barbaric
murder, was an attack on Parliament and on the freedom of all
Italians and represented a watershed in national history," said
the head of State.
"The violence that had immediately characterised the actions of
the fascist movement, after the attacks on workers organised in
trade unions and cooperatives, against the institutions, from
the Communes turned to Parliament.
"That political assassination took on a peculiar historical and
symbolic significance.
"The State was enslaved by an armed party that was becoming a
regime, with the complicity of the Monarchy".
The seat in the House from which Matteotti made his 'death
speech' on May 30, 2024 has now been left vacant forever.
Premier Giorgia Meloni said on the anniversary of the famous
speech that Matteotti had been killed by Fascist thugs.
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