The gray sky dotted with clouds moved by the wind. The flags marked in mourning. A white flower on the gate. The closed gates, as they would have been in any case, but which today seem like a perfect synthesis of the city, as the town hall wrapped in an unreal silence if not for passing cars. The name of Mirella Cerini running from one stall to another in the marketwhere more than one citizen still seems incredulous, and who can blame them.
It is an astonished Castellanza that today has to deal with the passing of “its” mayor, who passed away yesterday, still 51 years old, after the celebrations of April 25th, struck by a fatal illness when she still had the tricolor sash on. And while the city deals with the loss of its first citizen He expects to know the date of the autopsy, the last act before the family and the entire community can say their final farewell to Mirella Cerini. Meanwhile Sunday 28 April the torch from the oratory, rather than in the church, will arrive in the town hall as a sign of respect for the city’s mourning.
The celebrations for April 25th, then the illness
Cerini, architect and mayor of Castellanza since 2016, a role to which she has dedicated herself in recent years with great passion, on the morning of Thursday 25 April he participated in the celebrations for the 79th anniversary of the Liberation. Once the ceremony was over she returned to the town hall to leave the tricolor sash in the office and in those minutes she exchanged a few words with the custodian, to whom she said she would go up and get something hot because she felt unwell.
Then the illness, unfortunately at a time when the municipality was deserted for the public holiday. A local police officer found Mirella Cerini a few hours laterbut when it was already too late. The rescue efforts and the rush to the Busto Arsizio hospital were useless: for the first town of Castellanza there was now nothing left to do.
Mirella Cerini, mayor of Castellanza, has died. She was struck by a shared illness
The condolences of the territory
While waiting for the funeral, the news of Cerini’s death sparked unanimous condolences in the communityfrom politics to entrepreneurship, passing through the world of school and sport.
Condolences for the passing of Mirella Cerini: “She served Castellanza with passion”
