Thursday, 05 September 2019 07:29

Italian Association of Solidarity with Cuba, Firm in its Condemnation of Terrorism

Written by István Ojeda Bello
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Italian Association of Solidarity with Cuba, Firm in its Condemnation of Terrorism Photo: Courtesy of Irma Dioli

The Italy-Cuba National Friendship Association (ANAIC) reaffirmed its condemnation of all forms of terrorism, 22 years after the death of Fabio di Celmo, victim of a terrorist attack at the Copacabana Hotel in Havana on September 4, 1997.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Next to the grave where the remains of the young Italian and his parents rest in the cemetery of Arenzano, Genoa, the activists reiterated their commitment to "keep asking justice for the Di Celmo family and for the other 3, 478 victims of terrorism in Cuba since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution."

"Since the murderous American bomb put out your young life, I no longer have tears for crying," reads a plaque dedicated by Giustino Di Celmo to his son Fabio in a family pantheon. Giustino, who died in 2015, devoted all his efforts to defending the Cuban Revolution and for the intellectual authors of the crime against Fabio respond to justice. However, its fundamental architect, the well-known Cuban born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, died quietly at the age of 90 in a nursing home in Miami (USA) in 2018.

Likewise in the voice of its president, Irma Dioli, accompanied by the secretary of the ANAIC's  Genoa circle, Bice Parodi, as well as the coordinator in the Liguria region, Franco Zunino, the solidarity friends maintained their demand for the immediate end of the commercial, economic and financial blockade that for more than half a century the United States has maintained against the Antillean Archipelago.

Since July 2008 Las Tunas annually honors the young Italian through an infantile soccer cup, named after him, jointly sponsored by the Lombardy's ANAIC circles, the Sports Department of Las Tunas and the Provincial Delegation of ICAP. The tournament, integrated to the twinning between this territory and the Italian region of Lombardy, aims to promote the practice of football in the eastern province, while it is another recreational activity for children. After the death of his father, in September 2015, the event took its current name, "Giustino-Fabio Di Celmo."

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