DECLARATION BY MINISTER FRATTINI
I am, frankly, astonished by the Slovenian Academy’s decision to fund the film “Trieste è nostra” (Trieste is Ours) and by the State television corporation’s decision to broadcast it.
In just a few days we shall be celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. No-one should take the liberty of joking about the blood and suffering that Europe has so dramatically experienced. By recalling the suffering and the experiences to which the citizens of Istria and Dalmatia were subjected as a result of the horrible deeds of the Yugoslav dictator’s gangs, this film rubs fresh salt into wounds we should all be helping to heal rather than open anew.