Nuno Markl reacts to the death and calls attention to it: “It sounded ignorant, cruel and unfair”

Former deputy of the Portuguese Communist Party Sérgio Ribeiro has passed away. According to site from CNN Portugalthe MEP was also 88 years old.

On Instagram, Nuno Markl decided to reflect on this death. “The news of the death of Sérgio Ribeiro – whom I knew as a child, as a friend and colleague of my mother’s – made me think about the respect we should all have for people like him, whatever our political color,” he began by refer.

“When I saw those who took advantage of the recent 25th of April parade to shout ‘communism never again’, I remembered what people like Sérgio went through. He was a genuinely sweet and supportive person, who spent part of his youth imprisoned and tortured by the PIDE – in Aljube and Caxias – for having faced the regime, having been released shortly after April 25, 74”, he added.

“We may not be communists, we may disapprove of what communist regimes did in various parts of the world; but seeing a young person, in the April 25th parade, shouting ‘communism never again’ at a time when the PCP’s results in the elections are almost residues and on a day that celebrates a freedom whose fight was largely carried out by PCP activists like Sérgio Ribeiro, it sounded ignorant, cruel and unfair”, he further pointed out.

For Nuno Markl, it was “an honor” to have met Sérgio Ribeiro. “I feel like I needed to grow up to really appreciate what he went through and to see him as more than just a kind, always smiling family friend. I think more people should try to grow up, above conventions, obsessions and political clichés,” he added. .

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