The massacre of Ustica 45 years ago, Daria Bonfietti: “We scream our right to truth”

There are always the words of Daria Bonfietti, president of the relatives of the victims, To accompany, every year, 45 have passed, the memory and memory of the Ustica massacre. These are words that have not lost strength over the decades, they have acquired new one. “The Right to truth It is not only a need for the relatives of the victims, but a need for the very dignity of our country “.

In the early years after the massacre, which took place on June 27, 1980, the hypothesis of “Structural failure” of the DC-9 seemed to be the most accredited and the request for recovery of the wreck, made by the relatives of the victims, was considered superfluous. Starting from April 27, 1987, the French Institute Ifremer started the Opera mission, an acronym for the aircraft recovery operation in order to find, identify and recover the fragments of the wreck of the DC-9 Itavia, pursuing the goal of going to the bottom in the search for the reasons for the disaster.

Daria Bonfietti continues. “The request of the Prosecutor of the Republic of Rome of storage For the investigations, open in 2008 after the president emeritus Cossiga had indicated the French as responsible for the Ustica massacre, it must not be a surrender. We must find the strength, in the belief of being in the right, to resume the commitment and demand to write the whole truth about the massacre. The Rome prosecutor confirms that the DC-9 was demolished, that there was the war that evening in our skies, that the French aircraft carrier Foch and in flight American and French airmen was at sea. But at the same time he declares that he cannot “write” this truth, for lies, the scarce collaborations, the silences of friends and allies, France and the USA in the first place. This is the profound meaning of this 45th anniversary: ​​by the awareness of the truth conquered to the claim of international collaboration of government commitment and institutions to definitively write the complete, whole page of the history of that tragic summer evening of 27 June 1980 “.

The president of the association of family members of the victims speaks of the need to remember this tragedy and reiterates the importance of reading the last cards, of the latest investigations. «From the deeds deposited it is clear that many more people than we knew were aware of what had happened, many had understood. This is the thing that anguishes the most. We must strongly ask politics to find a sense of national dignity by asking questions to neighboring countries and allies. 45 years have passed and there was no justice “.

Daria Bonfietti has reported the failure to communicate with the Ministry of Education and merit that has not followed the agreements for the dissemination made with the associations of the families of the victims of massacres and terrorism. The work of the Association and Foundation Museum for Ustica’s memory It is an example of tenacious and necessary resistance that passes through art, but does a work of civil commitment.

The celebrations of the 45th anniversary of the Ustica massacretakes place between institutional moments and original cultural projects of music, theater, dance, performance wants to continue to feed the memory on the massacre. THE’Original illustration is Of Mauro Biani: a child on a floating wreck who looks at the sky, perhaps waiting for answers with the unshakable trust of the childhood. And again The bus set up by Tper With the image of Mauro Biani, who in addition to accompanying the relatives of the victims from Piazza Maggiore on the morning of June 27, will travel on the city of Bologna until 10 August, e the solidarity celebratory figurine made byForever Figurine Association To remember the 45th anniversary.

Appointment like every year from 27 June to 10 August to Palazzo D’Accursio and al Pumpkin parkwhere the Museum for Ustica’s memory with the permanent installation of Christian Boltanski around the wreck of the DC-9 and in dialogue with it, and the “Muretto di Andrea” dedicated to the memory of the journalist Andrea Purgatori. The cultural program of “Around the museum “ intertwine, Theater, music, performance, dance and poetry: for this edition the choice was to stimulate e welcome original projects by young artists and artists of national famewho agreed to bring their contribution to memory and for approach the new generations to the knowledge of a dark page of Italian history. Here the complete program.

The review closes on Sunday 10 August with the traditional poetic evening The night of San Lorenzoentrusted to the actor this year Edoardo Purgatori, son of Andrea. The poems chosen by purgatory, who speak of Memory, absence, resistance, not said silences and broken livesthey will dialogue with the live musical accompaniment of Stefan Larsen: a secular rite under the starsto evoke the non -pronounced names and listen to what still asks us.

To enrich the program the collaboration with Popular kitchens Bologna And District House A. Montanari with the initiative Memory on the table for the realization of Solidarity dishes prepared on all show evenings.

The Museum for Ustica’s memory of Bologna civic museums sector propose Extraordinary openings With the following times: Thursday 27 June, from 12.00 to 15.00 and from 20.00 to 23.30, Wednesday 2, Thursday 10, Monday 14, Wednesday 23 and Wednesday 30 July and Sunday 10 August, from 20.00 to 23.00.

On these evenings, with the exception of that of June 27, the Mambo Educational Department | Morandi Museum proposes one Free guided tour at the museum scheduled at 20.00: reservation is mandatory by writing to the email [email protected] by 13.00 on the day before the visit. On the other days, the museum’s summer opening hours remain unchanged, valid from 28 June to 28 September 2025: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, from 17.00 to 20.00.

All information is available on the site www.atrornoalmuseo.it.