Gallarate - Three murals for “Anti-Fascist Gallarate” have appeared on school walls - Gallarate/Malpensa - Varese News
Three very similar murals, painted at night to reiterate the existence of an “anti-fascist Gallarate” : they were painted between Wednesday and Thursday on the concrete walls of three high schools in the city of Gallarate , ten days after the far-right conference on deportations that caused much discussion and brought the name of the city to television reports.
Three writings, in three schools, discovered in the morning: at Gadda-Rosselli in Ronchi (in the opening photo of the article), in the parking lot of Is Ponti a few hundred meters away and finally at the high schools on Viale dei Tigli . The main message is identical – Gallarate anti-fascist – and the “graphics”, while the messages on the side are different, from the more evocative ones (“Power kills, freedom sings”) to the more explicitly political ones, such as the protest against the Security Bill.
The fight against forms of neo-fascism and neo-Nazism has been much discussed following the Remigration Summit, which brought to the municipal theatre a series of leaders ranging from the far right in parliament to militants close to neo-Nazism to figures (such as the ideologue Martin Sellner) who are kept under observation by the security services of some countries such as Germany and Switzerland.
The program of expelling people from Europe based on their ethnicity and skin color has also appeared in statements and interviews on national television programs, such as Le Iene and Piazza Pulita. The dismay has not been limited to the center-left: the provincial council, for example, has expressed its condemnation, with a document that has also been presented by Forza Italia , one of the center-right parties.
In recent days , a pressure campaign was launched and there was another episode in which the message of loyalty to the anti-fascist Constitution was cited: one of the boys awarded scholarships at the Maga concluded his brief testimony by saying "long live the anti-fascist Gallarate" , taking up the expression that was shouted by a spectator at the premiere at La Scala in December 2023 .
The murals were discovered in the morning by school staff. The director of the Ponti institute Massimo Angeloni says that the episode can become an "opportunity for educational reflection" on the methods of intervention and the different contents (he also underlines the difference between "the constitutional value of anti-fascism" and the other messages written with the spray can, more related to political debate). For the rest, it is not clear what will happen to them.
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