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The toponymy of Reggio Emilia will celebrate Norma Cossetto
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the oldest and most representative association of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, expresses to the Mayor of Reggio Emilia Luca Vecchi and his municipal administration its most sincere support for the favorable opinion obtained from the Toponymy Commission on the motion requesting the naming of a street after Norma Cossetto. This is an important recognition by the City of the Tricolour to the Istrian student Gold Medal for civil merit, awarded in 2005 by the then President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and awarded in the immediate post-war period with the "honorary degree to the...
Ziberna: “Italians are offended”
We received from the Communications Office of the Mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna, and are happy to publish. ZIBERNA ON BLOCKING VIA A NORMA COSSETTO: "ITALIANS OFFENDED" "I am horrified at the thought that there could be someone who, after so many years, questions the massacres and deportation of thousands of defenseless citizens, on the eastern border, after the war ended to defend the fury of the Titoist communists and their sick ideology. Unacceptable". The mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna, declares himself deeply shocked by the news that the toponymy commission of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia has blocked the naming of a street after Norma Cossetto because "it would lack...
Respecting the death of Norma Cossetto
“Infoibati” by Guido Rumici, published by Mursia in 2002, was the first scientific publication that specifically dealt with the foibe. Already on this occasion the terrible death of Norma Cossetto left the memory of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, who had guarded it for decades, and was presented in a documented and appropriate manner. The special commission, which prepares the investigation to assign honors to the descendants of the victims of the foibe and the deportations carried out by Tito's communist partisans, worked scrupulously before the President of the Republic and former partisan Carlo Azeglio Ciampi...
Norma Cossetto's story deserves respect
Reggio Emilia - The February 10 Committee expresses outrage over the contents of the minutes of the toponymy commission. “The story of Norma Cossetto deserves respect. We ask for the intervention of the Mayor and the Prefect. Does Istoreco agree with what its representative has said?” During the session of October 27, the toponymy commission of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia examined various proposals for naming streets, gardens or public buildings. All the practices were approved unanimously, up to the examination of the motion to name in memory of Norma Cossetto, an Istrian martyr brutally murdered by the Yugoslav communist partisans in October...
