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19 November 2019It is closed with the renunciation of Ezio Greggio to the honorary citizenship offered him by the municipality of Biella the political controversy for the honor denied to Liliana Segre. The Democratic Party of Piedmont and the undersecretary of Pentastellata for Education, Lucia Azzolina, had criticized the choice of the center-right junta led by Mayor Lega Claudio Corradino to give citizenship to the conductor of Striscia la Notizia after a week ago he had rejected the petition of a civic list to assign it to the surviving senator of the Shoah, threatened with death. "Without taking anything away from the well-known TV host," said Azzolina, "the sense of the institutions would have imposed other choices". "Biella, a gold medalist city of the Resistance that does not deserve this degradation", said the regional secretary dem, Paolo Furia.

In the evening, Ezio Greggio gave up the citizenship he was due to receive on Saturday. "My respect for Senator Liliana Segre, for all that she represents, for the history, the memories and the value of memory, push me to take a step back and not be able to accept this honor that the Municipality of Biella had thought of for me, "said the 65-year-old actor, comedian and director. "It is not a choice against anyone", specified Greggio, "but a choice in favor of someone, also for consistency and respect for those that are my values, the history of my family and my father who spent several years in the fields of concentration ".

The citizenship offered by Biella to the showman born in Cossato, in the Biella area, wanted to be a recognition to the association "Ezio Greggio for premature babies" and for "having contributed to spreading the name of Biella in Italy and in the world". Previously it had been rejected by the junta, because considered "instrumental", the proposal of honor to Segre presented by the civic lists "Buongiorno Biella" and "The people in the center" as a recognition to a "witness of the tragedy of the Holocaust and interpreter of values of justice and peace among human beings ".