The Italian Republic's goal is to
heal fractures, President Sergio Mattarella said at the naming
of a Rome university lecture hall after Massimo D'Antona, a
labour law expert gunned down by the Red Brigades 20 years ago
today.
"The Republic has the objective of closing the fractures that
appear in society, but those who detest democracy wants to widen
the fractures so that they become incurable conflicts, which sow
fear and rancour," he said.
They thus want the Italian Constitution to become
"unachievable", he said.
Mattarella said the "threats to democracy are changing and we
must defend our values.
"In a democratic country like ours we must constantly
remember that there is a patrimony of values and institutions
that must be defended together," he said.
The president stressed that terrorism had been defeated by
unity and described D'Antona's assassination as a "cowardly
murder and an incurable wound".
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