Florence – Covered with black spray and scarred with a fascist abbreviation, FGC, which for the Florentine digos stands for ‘Fasci youthful combat’, three stumbling blocks, reminiscent of the deportees to Nazi concentration camps, in via Bovio, Campo di Marte area .
It happened on the night between Wednesday and yesterday, Thursday 21 July. A few tens of meters away, in via Scialoja, the symbol of the Nazi SS was drawn in front of a door, again with black spray (the photos circulated on the Facebook group ‘Noi del Campo di Marte). A particularly disturbing episode because a swastika had already been drawn in front of the same door in the past. The writings were promptly deleted. The police are working to find the perpetrators.
“Where the victims of the Holocaust were arrested we have installed stumbling blocks to keep the memory alive. To those who covered them with Nazi symbols I say: your ignorance will never win. You cover them, we clean them. And with the cameras we will look for the person responsible ”, the conviction of the mayor Dario Nardella.
“This is a serious episode that we strongly condemn, adds the municipal councilor for education and welfare Sara Funaro . Florence recognizes itself in the values of the Resistance, anti-fascism and antisemitism. Those who perform these gestures have no respect for the past and trample our memory. I hope that those responsible will be identified as soon as possible ”.
“We will continue to fight to keep alive and spread the Memory, to fight with determination any upsurge of Nazi-Fascist origin and we hope that those responsible will be identified soon. All the more reason in these months, which bring us closer to a dark anniversary like that of the March on Rome, our commitment will be maximum. In Tuscany, land of memory, anti-fascism and resistance, there will never be any space for episodes that take us back to the most shameful period of our history ”, says the regional councilor for culture of memory Alessandra Nardini.
