What does the 1980 Bologna massacre have to do with the death of Abderrahim Fakir? Nothing. Yet for the PD there is indeed a connection. So much so that the mayor Matteo Lepore, not satisfied with the guerrilla warfare unleashed after the demonstration he himself called the day after the Moroccan’s death, recalled the square on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the massacre. “Bologna is a city wounded by what happened in Pilastro, and so every time it has been wounded it has taken to the streets, which is why I hope many people will come to the August 2nd march. To know Bologna you have to experience August 2nd in the square, otherwise you don’t know it.” A bit like not knowing the link between the two events. On one side an attack; on the other the arrest of a person out of control, unfortunately ending with his death for reasons that the justice system will have to ascertain. But in the City Council the mayor tried in every way to link the two events: “Our task is not to decide who may have committed a crime that day in Pilastro, our task is to stand by the victims and ask that all the necessary investigations be carried out, not in 46 years and not in ten years, because a family has the right to have truth and justice in human times.”
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Regarding the clashes the day after the tragedy, Lepore washed his hands of it by defining the one he called “a democratic, non-violent vigil, it is not a vigil against the State Police, precisely because, as our Cardinal Matteo Zuppi reminded us, it is important and of primary interest also to the State Police itself to know what happened in Pilastro.” Thus dismissing the violence of the social centers that caused over 300,000 euros in damage to the city. The mayor, who was assigned an escort after the complaint for threats received on social media, nevertheless expressed solidarity with the police: “We are close to the injured officers in Bologna just as I am close to the police officers for what happened in Val di Susa.”
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But it is known, on the left every excuse is good to call for the streets. Better if against the government and the center-right. And the Moroccan case is the ideal fuse to further politicize the memory of the massacre. So, aside from the invitation to “cool down the tension,” the PD also relaunched the pro-Fakir march: “This year, standing by the families of the victims is even more important because the city, in the last week, has been wounded by the tragedy of Abderrahim Fakir and needs even more to come together around the institutions and its community, in the demand for truth and justice,” wrote the secretary of the PD of Bologna, Enrico Di Stasi, in a note.
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It is precisely around the investigation into the man’s death that controversies do not subside. The family’s lawyer, Fabio Anselmo, filed a complaint for the dissemination of new frames from the bodycam of the officer who was making the arrest. “Whoever released them committed a crime and will have to answer for it,” the lawyer declared, referring to the images held by the program Filorosso on Rai 3.
Yesterday was also the day when the Prosecutor’s Office heard the victim’s relatives and the authors of the video of the scuffle. Around lunchtime it was the turn of the brother Mohamed, the sister Khadija, and the niece Yossra: two hours of interview after which no one wanted to make statements. In the file opened by investigators for manslaughter remain the two police officers involved and the four Red Cross volunteers present that day in Pilastro.
