The best wishes of President Mattarella

40 years ago the Arsenal of Peace began to live a different life from the previous one. Ernesto and Maria with the young people around them were not starting a dream, they were starting to realize it.
Because this in itself was miraculous, having obtained the Arsenale. It was unthinkable according to current logic, it was already the start of the dream come true. In these 40 years what we know, what we have seen, what we know well, has been a continuous succession of aspects, elements and miraculous events. Because the question is always this: how did they do it? After all, the One I once called the Majority Shareholder has never been absent in these companies.

And this extraordinary story, this adventure that completes these four decades, but has many more ahead in the certainty of continuity, is an event that deserves special remembrance.
And I would like to underline this with gratitude, while I also add gratitude for having remembered Piersanti with a connection that is truly very dear to me. And I would like to underline - once again - how important this adventure was in Turin, a city with extraordinary traditions on this side over the centuries, and which maintains in contemporary times this attitude that involves, conquers, gathers energies and people. Without this, everything we know would not have happened.

And so this is the opportunity to thank Ernesto, thank Maria, thank all of you for what you have done, what you do and what you will continue to do.

Thank you, best wishes and congratulations for these first four decades and best wishes for the coming decades.

Sergio Mattarella

Focus - Preparing peace
NP August - September 2023