Benito Mussolini and the fascist hierarchies are no longer honorary citizens of the island of Ustica.
With an amendment, approved this morning by the city council, the regulation was modified: the honors lapse 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.
It was the majority councilors who proposed the amendment which makes all citizenships forfeit the deceased, after having rejected an amendment from the minority which called for the revocation of the honors to Mussolini and his hierarchs, which had been conferred in 1924. "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, demonstrating little civic sense and fair play, preferring to discuss and address the topics with sentences shout and trumpet on the media or social media in order to gather some more consensus to have more visibility and, in fact, abstaining when they should or could have agreed".