Wednesday 1 December commemorates the killings of Cortile and San Marino – SulPanaro
CARPI- mWednesday 1st December, occurs the 77th anniversary of the Battles of Cortile and San Marino, crucial episodes of Carpi’s resistance to Nazi-fascism: the municipal administration will organize a commemorative ceremony again this year “not to forget” the sacrifice of the 24 victims.
The program includes a stop at the memorial stone in via Griduzza at 2.15 pm with the laying of a crown; then at 2.30 pm the meeting of the authorities, relatives of the fallen and citizens in front of the commemorative monument in Cortile. At 14:45 after the laying of a wreath to all the fallen, there will be the intervention of the mayor Alberto Bellelli. The ceremony, which will be accompanied by the “Città di Carpi” band, will end at 3 pm with the blessing of the parish priest of Cortile don Carlo Truzzi at the cemetery shrine
I am there – On 1 December 1944, in response to a Nazi-fascist roundup, the partisans of the area engaged in a fight that lasted the whole day, at the end of which the republicans and the German occupiers, who had converged en masse in the area, were forced to retreat. . The protagonists of the battle were the partisans of Cortile, Limidi, Soliera, San Marino, San Martino Secchia, Fossoli and others, together with numerous “relay teams”, who gave a fundamental contribution.
The price paid to the cause of freedom was very high, because a total of 24 men died: five civilians shot in retaliation and 19 partisans, between 18 and 24 years of age, of which three died in combat and the others went to arms (nine on same day and seven the next in San Marino, after being tortured), including two pairs of brothers; among the dead in battle there was also a pilot officer of the French military aviation, Michel Seeten, partisan of the 23rd “Garibaldi” Brigade.
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