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Giustino di
Celmo, Fabio di Celmo’s
father, receives a plaque signed
by the Five from Magalys Llort,
Fernando González’ mother. |
On this occasion, family members of
the five anti-terrorist Cubans incarcerated in the
United States; the leadership of the Cuban Institute
of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP); and the
Copacabana workers filled the hotel to honor Fabio
Di Celmo and his father, an untiring fighter for the
liberation of the Five.
Magaly Llort, Fernando González’
mother, was the bearer of a wooden plaque for
Fabio’s father containing an inscribed message
signed by Gerardo Fernández Nordelo, Ramón Labańino
Salazar, René González Schwerert, Fernando González
Llort and Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez.
In her words, Magaly Llort
emphasized that, at the very beginning of the
movement for the return of the Five, Giustino Di
Celmo promised that his family members would take up
the cause of these unjustly imprisoned men as if it
were theirs. And Fabio’s father and brother Livio
have fulfilled that promise.
Despite his advanced age, Giustino
has undertaken many actions to make people aware of
the interconnected events concerning the death of
Fabio Di Celmo, as irrefutable evidence of the State
of Necessity which the Cuban people have to seek
information within terrorist groups in order to
avert further crimes.
Finally, Magaly Llort read the text
engraved on the plaque:
"For Giustino Di Celmo, with
profound gratitude for your support of our struggle
for justice."
Di Celmo expressed his thanks for
the gift. "No pain can be greater than that of the
death of a son and even more so when it is caused by
a violent and cruel act. It pains me to think about
all the acts of terrorist against Cuba. It pains me
to think that Luis Posada Carriles, the confirmed
and self-confessed murderer of my son and of
multiple crimes, is freely walking the streets of
Miami while these young men who were fighting to
stop any more acts of terrorism in Cuba are confined
in prison cells.
"I want to ask all people of good
will to divulge this great truth and to write to the
President of the United States asking him to release
the five Cuban anti-terrorists. They are just men
and justice cannot be incarcerated. If my Fabio were
alive, I know that he would have written a letter to
Obama advocating their immediate liberation." •
