Cuba begins anti-terrorism campaign with tribute to Fabio di Celmo

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 5 (ACN) The traditional Day for Peace, Against the Blockade, and Terrorism began on Thursday with a memorial tribute to young Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo, the innocent victim of a terrorist attack against Cuba at the Copacabana Hotel in Havana on September 4, 28 years ago.

The Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP by its Spanish acronym) and the workers at the tourist facility annually commemorate on this date the "Copacabana Boy," whose life was cruelly cut short at 32 by a bomb explosion, an event that plunged his family and all of Cuba into grief.

The tribute began with a wreath laid by Fernando Gonzalez Llort, president of ICAP, and Livio Di Celmo, brother of Fabio and son of the unforgettable Giustino (1920-2015), who settled in Cuba and dedicated his final years to denouncing terrorist acts against the island and demanding justice for the atrocious attack on the Copacabana.

Rigoberto Zarza, director for Europe at ICAP, stated, "We will never forget all those innocent people who have been victims of terrorist acts against Cuba, for the sole reason of defending our right to decide our own destiny."

He denounced that terrorism has been a permanent instrument of US foreign policy against Cuba, affirming that in today's complex world, state terrorism is inseparable from the actions of imperialism.

For his part, Marlon Miguel Nuñez, director of Copacabana, expressed that the group is loyal to the history and memory of Fabio, raising awareness of that horrific act ordered by the counterrevolutionary Luis Posada Carriles, who admitted his crime, was never prosecuted, and died in freedom in the United States under the protection of that country's government.

Every year, ICAP organizes the Day for Peace, Against the Blockade and Terrorism, which concludes on October 6, the date of the horrendous Barbados Crime in 1976, the mid-air explosion of a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft in a criminal terrorist act that killed 73 people.