Moroccan, the appeal to the Pope: “On November 2 remember the victims of the goumiers”

The Moroccan Victims Association writes to the Pope and invites him to Castro dei Volsci, a city in the province of Frosinone that had 940 women raped by goumiers, where a mass in suffrage will be celebrated in May. ” Your Holiness, I learned from the press that he will go, on Tuesday 2 November, to the French Military Cemetery in Rome where he will celebrate Holy Mass at 11 am – writes the president of the association Emiliano Ciotti in the letter – I am convinced that the commemoration of deceased is very important and that is why I decided to write to you. In fact, the bodies of the colonials who served in the French Army are interred in the Military Cemetery of Monte Mario, many of whom committed crimes against the Italian civilian population in the period 1943-1944. These unspeakable violence (rapes, murders, robberies, raids), which went down in history with the term ‘Moroccan’, began in July 1943 in Sicily, continued in Campania and Lazio, where they reached peaks of ferocity in the provinces of Frosinone and Latina, in Tuscany and stopped at the gates of Florence ”. The National Association of Victims of Moroccan Women, ” which I have the honor of presiding over, works to make known this national tragedy, which has been kept in silence for too many years ”. ” Holy Father – she adds – I trust that you will find the right words to remember in your homily these poor victims, forgotten by all. Innocent civilians that our association will commemorate on 18 May next, on the occasion of the ‘National Day in memory of the victims of the Moroccan women’, in Castro dei Volsci, the city in the province of Frosinone that had 940 raped women ”.