Mourners in Rome pay last respects to Italian activist Emma Bonino
Riccardo Magi said Bonino dedicated her life to democracy and Europe as mourners filed past her casket and a state funeral was set for Tuesday.
- Hundreds of people queued outside Rome's City Hall on Sunday to pay respects to Emma Bonino, the prominent Italian politician who died Friday, aged 78. A Carabinieri honor guard escorted her casket into the building.
- Bonino rose to prominence in the 1970s leading a Radical Party campaign to legalize abortion in Roman Catholic Italy despite Vatican objections. Her 50-year career included significant political achievements both at home and internationally.
- As a European commissioner, Bonino created the European Commission Humanitarian Office and forged consumer protection policy. She traveled to war zones including Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, and Afghanistan, arguing humanitarian aid should not excuse political inaction.
- Italy will hold a state funeral for Bonino on Tuesday. Riccardo Magi, secretary of the Europa party she founded, draped a European flag over her casket, citing her commitment to reforming European institutions into a federal union.
- Caterina Borelli, an artist from Rome, described Bonino as "indomitable" and essential for the doors she opened for women. Mourners including psychoanalyst Flavia praised Bonino as a courageous example for the feminist movement's evolution.
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Rome mourns Emma Bonino as crowds gather ahead of state funeral
Hundreds gathered at Rome City Hall to pay their last respects to Emma Bonino before Tuesday's state funeral. The public farewell reflected her enduring legacy in Italian feminism, human rights and European politics.
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Mourners in Rome pay last respects to Italian activist Emma Bonino
Hundreds of people have lined up outside Rome’s city hall to pay their last respects to Emma Bonino, the prominent Italian politician and human rights campaigner who died on Friday, aged 78.
To welcome the coffin the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and the secretary of More Europe Riccardo Magi
There were the brothers, the leaders of +Europa and the mayor Roberto Gualtieri
It will be possible to give the last greeting to the radical leader today, Sunday, from 12 to 19, and Monday 14 from 10 to 19
Open the fiery room of Emma Bonino, the arrival of the coffin in Campidoglio
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