Mattarella, Liliana Segre and the pistol not collected

Liliana segre He holds his eyes, to resume the memory. There was a soldier, a commander ad Auschwitz, brutal and ruthless, ferocious. He was fleeing not to end up in the hands of the Russians: he took off his uniform, threw away the gun. Who fell a short distance from her, who was 14 years old and until then had been like a piece of pezza in his hands. “I got the impulse to take it,” he admits, “to shoot him. But I didn’t do it. And it was then that I understood.”

He understood, this woman who almost whispers while Sergio Mattarella I listen to her careful: “That moment I understood the enormous difference that there was with him; I never could have killed anyone for any reason. I became a woman of peace”. And with a phrase preceded by a premise, “I was very loved”, Liliana Segre shows what the real victory on hatred and her disciples is. On the Shoah And on those who, even now, are ready to resurrect it.

Remembering without reflecting makes little sense, especially now that the escapes to the concentration camps are less and less, taken away by time. For this reason, the head of state wanted to celebrate once more the day of memory, which also saw him twenty -four hours before in Auschwitz together with crown presidents and heads. Of course, not all delegations were present in full or were completely absent, yet it was a “historical event”, “an event that also expressed the meaning of renewing a pact between the nations and peoples which, in difficult times such as those That we are going through, in which violence, aggression, enmity, war seem to want to take over, turns on hope “.

In short, according to Mattarella there are many legitimate concerns, however, the same is, however, that we must not miss soul in the face of the urlo of intolerance.
A scream that goes more and more often from social media. “It is painful and unacceptable that there are ignoble racist insults to Senator Segre, on those social media that were born as an expression of freedom and which instead, often, of becoming an instrument of violence and denial of rights”, marks the head of state , which warns: “We need to put an embankment. They are serious crimes, which must be pursued to protect freedom and justice”.

Because unfortunately it is true: Auschwitz is a “temptation that resurfaces”, a ghost that “lodges at the bottom of the man’s heart”. Auschwitz is also the result – it must be clear – of those racial laws that fascism promoted and imposed And that the fascists applied by transforming themselves into “Hitler’s willing executioners”. This is why what came later (peace, democracy, defeat of racism) is the result of the refusal of all this.

The suffering of the extermination camps “have shaped the spirit and form of our Constitution, which was born – and lives – to erase the principles, the actions, the watchwords of the gloomy Nazi -fascist domination, of which the bloody world conflict and Rooms of extermination were the cruel and inevitable results “, underlines Mattarella, who thus traces a direct descent of the card from the tragedy of the Holocaust. In fact “unlike hatred, blind faith and unconditional obedience, the Constitution provides for democracy, participation, guarantees and controls”. In individual democracies and that democratic method that should be at the center of the relationships between peoples.

It is no coincidence that Mattarella cites l‘Ukraine, where “the Russian invasion took place with slogans and justifications of east and aggressive nationalismwhich belong to a past condemned by history “. But he quotes, the president, another case even more delicate, given the circumstance.” The hatred predicted towards other peoples, other religions, other cultures worry about generally, And, among other phenomena, the threat continues to the safety and existence of the people of Israel, “he says. Then they continue:” As well as – after the horror of October 7 – it happened shocking in the Gaza Strip, causing The death of many thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians “.

It is not a banal engraved, his. So much so that immediately after Mattarella explicitly asks that the democratic method, dialogue, the end of hatred between peoples and nations, generates authentic and lasting peace even in the Middle East. “We hope that the recent respite, which has led to the liberation of the innocent Israeli hostages left alive and a termination of hostilities, is really respected”, hopes and reiterates: the respite “regga to subsequent events and extremist and radical thrusts so To be transformed into a process of true relaxation, towards the solution of the “two states, two peoples”, the only one capable of trying to dissolve the deposits of hatred that have further increased “.

Because to be men and women of peace, to be different from the disciples of hatred and the willing executioners, in order not to be assimilated to the advocate of racial laws, just a gesture is enough. Just don’t take a gun in her hand.