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Not only Corrado Augias. Even the former mayor of Bologna Sergio CofferatiThe minister Giovanna melandri and the journalist and intellectual Luciana Castellina they decided return the Legion of Honor to France after the Elysee granted the highest recognition of the country to the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. A gesture made, as the writer explained yesterday, out of respect for Jules regeni, given Egypt’s lack of cooperation in the search for the truth about his murder and the continuous human rights violations that characterized the general government.
“For my way of understanding the world, it is not since I am in the company of al-Sisi,” explained the former secretary general. CGIL motivating your decision. And he explains that the recognition had been granted to him, coincidentally, “for my work in defense of children’s rights and against the exploitation of minors. The theme of my Legion of Honor was me universal rights that now i see trampled of the choice of Macron“Which tried to hide it by preventing the dissemination of press releases, photos and videos of the ceremony in honor of al-Sisi.
The former mayor of the Emilian capital concluded by asking for achoral action of Europe on the question of human rights in Egypt: “Europe must move together with the Egyptian government. But Italy must also do its part, withdraw the ambassador in Cairo as soon as possible“.
“I feel, before what happened, the political and moral duty to resign, with regret, the title of Officer of the Arts and Letters of the French Republic,” wrote the intellectual Castellina in the letter sent to the ambassador. Masset. He also explains the decision saying that the award of the Legion of Honor to al-Sisi “is a pain for those like me, and for many Italians, who feel so attached to France. Is a bad page in the history of this country. An amazing gesture, I would add, that nobody would have expected from the French Republic ”.
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