With an amendment approved this morning by the city council, the regulation was modified: the honors cease for all deceased. During the twenty years, the island of Ustica was a place of confinement where numerous anti-fascists were sent, including Antonio Gramsci.
"This puts an end to the artificial controversies and definitively fills a void in the previous regulation," write the majority councilors. "We expected a more collaborative and effective presence from the minority group but, once again, we take note of the warmongering and unnecessarily triumphalistic attitudes," they wrote in a letter to the island's mayor. The amendment was approved by a majority of the city's councilors, who rejected an amendment from a minority which called for the revocation of the honors to Mussolini and his hierarchs, which had been conferred in 1924. It was the majorityCouncils who proposed the amendment which made all citizenship forfeit the deceased, after having rejected an amendment from the Minority Councilors.