"Fifty years have passed since the terrorist attack on Rome's Fiumicino International Airport, which was part of a context of Middle Eastern instability that generated attacks, particularly on numerous Western countries. The heinousness of the terrorists resulted in the death of thirty-two people, including six compatriots: the young financier Antonio Zara, who was killed in an attempt to foil the attack, Raffaele Narciso, Domenico Ippoliti, and Giuliano De Angelis along with his wife, Emma Zanghi, and her daughter Monica. The claim of violence as a means of asserting one's reasons has deep roots. The manifestations of hatred that we are still forced to witness today sow further opposition and strike at the heart of civil coexistence”. These are the words of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who yesterday wished to recall the 1973 Fiumicino massacre. "Terrorism offends the values of humanity, starting with the right to life, harms individual and collective safety, violates human rights, threatens peace and universal security," the Head of State further said, "We need to know how to give constructive responses to the suffering of those who believe they have no way out of their condition, implementing the necessary measures to counter organizations that act with the aim of subjugating populations with terror, exerting forms of coercion on public powers, and destabilizing the pivotal structures of States. "An increasingly widespread dissemination of the principles of tolerance, respect for human rights and peaceful coexistence among peoples can fuel the realization of lasting peace, in international stability," Mattarella concluded.
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