Florence City Council approved the naming of the square in front of the Fortezza da Basso and the extra stop of the tramway to the Florentine journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci, ten years after her death.
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A street to honor the Florentine writer Fallaci
The city council of Florence yesterday has approved a “motion” to engage the Mayor Matteo Renzi to dedicate a street to Oriana Fallaci, journalist and writer famous throughout the world. In the past two weeks, the center-left majority had postponed the debate to find its unity. Today the motion was passed with the votes of the center-right opposition and only a part of the majority members.
The city council failed to discuss Fallaci’s memory
For the second week in a row the city council of Florence failed to discuss a political motion to engage the Mayor Matteo Renzi to dedicate a street to Oriana Fallaci, journalist and writer famous throughout the world. To create political embarrassment in Italian left parites the articles and books against Islamic fundamentalism, written in the last years of her life.