Italian Pres says 'no more sacrifices'

(ANSA) - Rome, April 24 - Italian President Sergio Mattarrella said on Friday that there must be "no more sacrifices" in the fight for democracy".
    "It is no longer necessary to take up arms to defend democracy as did that child, Ugo Forno, in order to obtain freedom and democracy", the Italian president said at student award ceremony 'From Resistance to Active Citizenship' promoted by Italy's Education Ministry, in cooperation with the National Partisans Association held at Rome's Quirinale Palace.
    12-year-old Forno was killed in June 1944 while fighting with friends and resistance partisans to prevent the destruction of a Rome bridge by Nazi troops who wanted to stop the Allied forces entering Rome.
    Rome's Ugo Forno railway bridge was named in honor of him.