We must be extremely rigorous in prosecuting crimes, and equally rigorous in not allowing crimes to be exploited. - Sergio Cofferati

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We must be extremely rigorous in prosecuting crimes, and equally rigorous in not allowing crimes to be exploited.

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About Sergio Cofferati

Sergio Cofferati (born 1948) is an Italian trade unionist and politician. He was secretary general of CGIL from 1994 to 2002, mayor of Bologna for the Democrats of the Left from 2004 to 2009, and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2019 elected as a candidate of the Democratic Party.

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Luciano Lama was secretary general of the CGIL trade union at a time when terrorism was a particularly aggressive cancer in Italian society. He had the merit and great courage – together with others – to take the CGIL against political violence and terrorism. He was a true moral authority in this country, a role that, unfairly, was not fully recognised.

Un conto è ripudiare la guerra, perché non la promuovi, non la solleciti e non la giustifichi, ma qui la guerra c'è: la sta facendo Putin. Dobbiamo aiutare gli aggrediti in ogni modo, con gli strumenti di carattere politico e militare. Ed è una storia che conosciamo. Come mai non guardiamo al nostro passato? Ci saremmo mai liberati dai nazisti e dai fascisti senza l'uso delle armi? Chi ci aiutò in quegli anni non lo fece forse anche con gli strumenti militari? Io voglio la pace. Credo nel valore assoluto della pace e della democrazia, ma quando è attaccata va difesa in ogni modo. Se non si distingue tra aggressori e aggrediti, si rischia di compiere scelte errate e ideologicamente contorte.

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