The Veneice branch of the Italian WWII Partisans Association ANPI on Thursday clarified that they would not try to stop Jeff Bezos's lavish wedding to Lauren Sanchez at the end of this month after reports Wednesday that it would protest local government allegedly "selling out" the lagoon city centre to the Amazon boss and his bride.
A banner against the wedding was hung from a belltower in Venice last Thursday as protests at his reported "city centre buy-out" for the lavish nuptials with Sanchez gather pace.
ANPI's 'Seven Martyrs' group said Thursday: "The ANPI of Venice does not intend to prevent Jeff Bezos from getting married in Venice, but expresses once again the reasons for its point of view on the choices of the Administration, on the use of the city, on the commodification, on the privatization of public spaces, on overtourism, on the large ships and the large events that compress the livability of the city destined, if the trend is not reversed, to an inexorable demographic, social and economic decline".
"All this - continued the Venetian ANPI - does not distract us from the most dramatic issues of today: from the issue of peace, to the issue of rearmament, to the drama of migration, to the fight against the security decree and in support of workers' rights on which we continue to be scrupulously present as required by the constitutional dictate.
