Dear Director Feltri,
I want to tell you what struck me about the Monreale massacre, where three boys were slaughtered and two others were injured: the killers, also young people, took their lives away because the victims had politely invited them not to run with the bike in the center of the town.
Can you kill themselves for a reproach?
Francesco Negri
Dear Francesco,
On the night between Saturday and Sunday, in Monreale, in the province of Palermo, the execution of these very young people, Andrea Miceli, 26 years old, Salvatore Turdo, 24, cousin of the first, and Massimo Pirozzo, 26. The two cousins had asked, to those who then extracted two or even three firearms, shooting 18 shots, to slow down, as five out of three bikes, scorned in the heart of the heart, was Sicilian village. And it also upsets me, dear Francesco, that a reproach, if we can say so, but it would be better to speak of an invitation to respect the rules of common sense that every citizen should consider sacrosanct, can be interpreted and lived as a form of insult, of insolence, even of violence and abuse, such as to trigger such an extreme reaction. It is as if the criminals in question were not able to support the weight of the call, as if it were an injustice, precisely, to which to respond with another injustice, or by removing the life of three boys like them, more or less peers, and giving life to a guerrilla war that could have made other deaths, innocent people, who passed by there, from that road, from that bar, at that time.
Here, I would like to point out that you do not trigger a similar carnage if you do not have an anger and aggression that are waiting for nothing but explode. Just a trifle, an opportunity or a reason or any excuse is enough to explode. In addition, there is that element that you have highlighted: the inability to accept the norm, therefore the recall, the exhortation, although kind, to moderate, intolerance towards the law but also of the neighbor, aspects that betray an anti -social spirit that derives from an educational gap as deep as an abyss. Perhaps incurable. If you have not been raised and educated to respect the rules, that is, the limits, when someone puts them in front of them, go out of your mind. This moral poverty is the ideal humus in which the youth violence that is making many victims is germinated and thrives. They are twenty -year -olds, but also minors, who believe they are the masters of the world, the masters of the road, the masters of their life as of the lives of others, in this delirium of omnipotence, becomes easy to bring out the gun and kill by shooting the impazzate, because someone has dared, with a word or a gesture or a glance, to harm the supreme majesty of these carrion, to which it was taught that it was taught that it was called, It washes with the blood.
And the consequences of this act are not even taken into consideration. There is only the urgency to take revenge. To eliminate the limit. To show who commands.
At any cost.