00:00After the riots of October 17, that day full of looting, violence, attacks on the police,
00:08injured, of carabinieri and police officers, I would like to comment that violence must always be condemned, without ifs or
00:18without buts.
00:19I also say that some people condemn it, for goodness sake, even on the left, but they immediately add but, however, and I say that
00:26if there is a however, the sentence becomes a mitigating factor.
00:30Well, all hell breaks loose, from the next day, or even earlier perhaps, but above all from the next day, the mechanism will be triggered, the Russian woman cannot
00:38speak, he cannot condemn violence because he, 55 years ago, more than 50 years ago, was the head of a
00:47procession on April 13, 1973, or April 12 I think it was,
00:53which saw the dramatic, tragic death of police officer Antonio Marino.
01:02But if you want, I can tell you in detail what happened in that tragic April of 1973.
01:09The Italian Social Movement, the leaders of the Italian Social Movement, I was a youth leader, decided to call a demonstration against
01:18violence because in the last few days many young people had been attacked even outside their homes,
01:24the Red Brigades had kidnapped a Cisnal trade unionist, etc., etc.
01:29And on that occasion a procession was requested.
01:33The procession, the day before April 13th, was banned and the MSI accepted the ban willingly,
01:41also because as an alternative a rally was allowed, albeit in a semi-peripheral square, semi-central like Piazza Tricolore.
01:50When there were only 3-4 hours left until the start of the planned and authorized rally,
01:56he arrived at the office of the Honorable Servello, I was present, I'll even tell you his name,
02:01Dr. Valentini, commissioner of the political office at the current Digos,
02:05with a new ban, a ban on the rally as well, with the incredible justification that the rallies of all the
02:12parties
02:12because it was the opening date of the Milan trade fair.
02:17Never before has a similar justification for the suspension of constitutional rights been used, nor will it ever be used again.
02:24We immediately understood that it was a choice that could cause accidents.
02:30We immediately understood that there was an attempt to create a series of accidents.
02:36to exploit them against the MSI, against the social movement.
02:40We then desperately tried to take cover, we blocked those who were supposed to arrive from other cities in Lombardy,
02:48We desperately searched for a movie theater to do indoors what was forbidden even as a simple rally outside.
02:56No cinema wanted to give us a theater for fear that the left would attack the theaters and cause damage to the facilities.
03:05Even Gianluca Bonazzi, a young executive who owned the Argentine cinema, due to his family's ban,
03:12he banned Argentine cinema from us.
03:15At that point Servello and the other managers, including myself as a youth manager,
03:19we decided to go to the prefect to try to convince him to revoke the ban on the rally
03:27precisely because we feared that incidents could arise with people who were not warned of the ban.
03:35And we row in a group of ten people, followed by the plainclothes police, albeit with helmets,
03:43and there is a photo that proves it, other than the procession, that is the photo while we are going to the prefecture,
03:48and followed by the police we raced along Corso Monforte from the prefect to the prefecture.
03:53While the delegation was talking with the prefect of Milan,
03:57A dramatic phone call arrived right at the prefect.
04:00He announced to him that a few minutes earlier an SRCM bomb had been dropped,
04:06a hand grenade, not a moral effect grenade as it was called,
04:10which caused the death of the marine agent by falling between the shield and his chest.
04:17You understand the drama that this meant for a party of order,
04:22what the Italian social movement was, how it believed itself to be,
04:26and you understand what it entailed, so much so that the Italian social movement even
04:34he put a sort of bounty on whoever had thrown that bomb.
04:40Furthermore, in addition to that dramatic, very painful episode which caused the death of the marine agent,
04:49that day there were no other injuries, there were no clashes with the police,
04:55but this did not diminish the story which was very painful,
05:02especially for a party like ours.
05:05The affair, as is obvious, was the subject of a complex legal action,
05:12the Italian social movement was accused,
05:14it came to an accusation in which I was completely extraneous,
05:19I was never prosecuted for anything, not even for unauthorized demonstration,
05:24unauthorized, in fact, in the court documents it is stated that I worked to ensure that accidents did not occur.
05:31Instead they were charged, but as organizers of an unauthorized demonstration,
05:38the Hon. Servello and the other party leaders who were the promoters of the initiative,
05:43but they were all acquitted and the sentence states that they had made efforts,
05:49like the entire Italian social movement, like myself,
05:53so that the risk of accidents that inevitably arose from that last-minute ban would be limited.
06:02So, as far as I'm personally concerned, it's a complete fake,
06:07This is completely unfounded news, and I am not responsible for any of it.
06:11any participation of mine in the dramatic episodes that cost the life of the poor marine agent.
06:20And no one will ever be able to stop me from saying loud and clear,
06:26as I did on that occasion, as the Italian social movement did,
06:30even over 50 years ago, that violence must be condemned, without ifs or buts.
06:37I had to declare that I would take legal action against anyone who wanted to associate my name with that tragic event.
06:45episode.
06:46I said that I am ready to give up if, for example, Mrs Ponzani decides to apologize for the
06:56his words.
06:57However, I do not expect apologies from other people like Giannini, like Berizza,
07:03I'm used to their bullshit, I don't care about their excuses,
07:09also because I only expect them from people who, in my opinion, I consider worthy of attention.
