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02 August 2020 "On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the massacre of the station, which caused eighty-five deaths and over two hundred wounded, I wish - after a few days from my visit to Bologna and from the meeting in the place of the attack - to reaffirm the closeness, the solidarity and participation in the pain of the families of the victims and in the city of Bologna, so seriously affected by the heinous and criminal terrorist gesture, reaffirming, at the same time, the duty of memory, the need for full truth and justice and the need for tireless work of defense of the principles of freedom and democracy ". This was stated in a note by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella on the occasion of the anniversary of the massacre at the Bologna station on 2 August 1980.

Conte, tearing apart the veil that separates truth
"Forty years after the massacre in Bologna. We are at the side of family members, of those who believe in the state, of magistrates committed to definitively tearing the veil that separates us from the truth. We owe it to the 85 innocent victims, we owe it to ourselves". Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte writes on Twitter on the anniversary of the attack on the Bologna

Crimi station , the only word to victims is 'sorry'
 "Seriousness requires that a fixed point be placed in front of family members. After 40 years one can only apologize. It is not acceptable, it is not admissible "the lack of full truth about the massacre of August 2, 1980. Thus the deputy minister of the interior Vito Crimi, in the opening ceremony for the anniversary of the attack. "Apologies" from the state "are the only words that have a semblance of decency, after 40 years of immutable pain experienced by family members one can only apologize," he reiterated.