The ceremony was organized by the Venezuelan embassy to Cuba and held at the Copacabana Hotel —the site where Di Celmo died—, with the attendance of his father Giustino Di Celmo, a group of 130 Venezuelans involved in a social tourism project and workers of the hotel.

Ambassador Ronald Blanco La Cruz said it was their duty to support all those who fight terrorism and in favor peace. He recalled that Venezuelan is also a victim of aggressions like that of September 1997 that took the life of the young Italian solidarity activist.

Giustino Di Celmo thanked the Venezuelan embassy for the ceremony and spoke about the criminal action in which he lost his son. “Fabio was murdered in an action against this small country by a nation that sees itself as the owner of the world, with the most arrogant and cynical government that has ever existed and that is destroying the human beings and the planet,” said Giustino Di Celmo in reference to the US.

The young European visitor died as a consequence of blowing of explosives placed at the bar of the Copacabana Hotel by an individual at the service of notorious terrorist Luís Posada Carriles. Carriles was also the mastermind of the in-mid-air blowing of a Cuban plane in 1976 that took the lives of 73 people aboard. He lives currently in Miami under the protection of American authorities.