«Woman how much we loved you in the good old days of patriarchy», the shocking banner in Latina

On March 8, 2026, in the heart of Latina, the fence of a stalled construction site transformed into yet another showcase for a message with an anachronistic and misogynistic flavor.

“Woman: how much we loved you in the good old days of patriarchy”: this is the phrase that appeared at dawn on the fence of Parco Falcone e Borsellino.

A provocation signed by “The Natives”, a group already known in the city, which chose International Women's Rights Day to launch a frontal attack on civil rights and attempt to normalize female subordination.

The signature, after all, is not new. In February 2025, the same group had posted a banner at the same construction site with the message: “The Duce built a city faster than you can renovate a park.”

If a year ago the target was administrative efficiency, measured through the distorted lens of propaganda from the Ventennio, today we witness a qualitative leap: the dignity of women is now directly in the crosshairs, while the word “patriarchy” is waved like a seductive nostalgia for a lost value.

The context is crucial. Parco Falcone e Borsellino, a historic green lung of the city, is at the center of a redevelopment project funded with PNRR funds for over 5.5 million euros. However, since the end of 2023, the works have been progressing slowly, amid appeals to the TAR, variations, and suspensions. The stalemate has turned the area into a symbol of administrative dysfunction and, in fact, its fence into a blackboard for toxic messages.

Immediate institutional and social reactions followed. Although the banner was removed quickly, the images continued to circulate on social networks, amplifying the offense. The mayor of Latina, Matilde Celentano, distanced herself sharply, calling the message “offensive” and “unacceptable” for the community. The Cgil Frosinone-Latina also condemned the outrage, indicating it as a symptom of a “regressive cultural climate”. Meanwhile, the Digos has launched an investigation to identify the authors.

The episode highlights a profound historical and cultural dissonance. On one hand, the narrative of an alleged “original purity” evoked by the term “The Natives”; on the other, the true soul of Latina: not only a “foundation city”, but historically a crossroads of migrations, from the Venetian and Friulian settlers to the workers of the Lepini mountains, up to the more recent arrivals from abroad. Moreover, using a common good dedicated to two symbols of legality like Falcone and Borsellino to convey a discriminatory message represents an undue invasion of urban space.