Marsala – The anniversary of “Europe Day” coincided yesterday with the inauguration in Marsala of the mural “You can’t call it love”. It was created in the Palace of Justice, in particular, on the premises deThe Protected Hearings Area of the Marsala Prosecutor’s Office. The mural, ideator within the project of the same name, it was created by the students of V Teaching Club “Hon. Francesco De Vita” directed by Vita D’Amico, in collaboration with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Anti-Violence Desk of the Prosecutor’s Office itself, coordinated by Marshal GD Bertolino. THE children were guided by the architect Antonio Mauro and the teachers Antonella LLombardo and Floriana Fabriano.
Attending the cutting of the tricolor ribbon – citizens, authorities, school workers and students – were the prosecutor Fernando Asaro, the president of the Court, Alessandra Camassa, the mayor and the school director Vita D’Amico. They themselves subsequently underlined the importance of the mural.
The prosecutor Asaro: “The participation of citizens and the smiling faces of many young people are a beautiful testimony of sharing this initiative. A synergistic sharing of values and sensitivity, thanks to which it was possible to create an important and significant gesture to welcome the suffering and pain of those who suffer violence, whatever its type and wherever it occurs. It is a work that contributes to reducing the distances between the Palace of Justice and the citizens, promoting its true objective, that of being the place where the rights of each of us are exercised”.
There President Camassa: “A work that has its added value in the cultural path that created it and which saw students, teachers and institutions together. Those who suffer years and years of violence are people completely deprived of the courage to ask for help, they often no longer know who they are. Approaching the anti-violence help desk, talking to psychologists and magistrates is done with less fear in a place where you are greeted by a wall depicting a woman who has freed herself from her pain, communicating serenity. And for a woman accustomed by suffering to repress her feelings, the service we provide becomes even more important.”.
The mayor of Marsala: “A tangible testimony of a concrete commitment, confirming an institutional collaboration that keeps the anti-violence office active. And today we reiterate the objective of raising everyone’s awareness of the spread of a culture that combats all forms of violence, continuing to create reference points in the city for young people, as will also be the Marisa Leo room inside the Wine Museum which we will inaugurate on Sunday. All of this is part of that appeal, launched several times by my Administration, to feel like a community to promote together the culture of legality and respect for every right”.
There D’Amico manager: “The place where the architect. Mauro has rcompleted the work is emblematic. Today it becomes an exemplum not only for the public but above all for those who are starting, in those rooms, to make a change in their lives, becoming in turn an example for many defenseless women who are looking for help”. D’Amico herself, at the end of her speech, read the note with which the regional councilor Mimmo Turano (absent due to other institutional commitments) congratulated the initiative of the V Circolo and the institutions involved.
Appreciations for the mural and contributions to the reflection on the issues of gender violence were also expressed by Giuseppe Spada (president of the Marsala Bar Association) e Adele Pipitone (president of the Equal Opportunities Committee of the Court of Marsala) who introduced the operators of the female ceramics workshop – “Le Barbottine”, active at the Sappusi Social Center – which donated a clay work to the Public Prosecutor’s Office. It depicts the head of a woman with a “scar” (spontaneously engraved by cooking in the oven), as if to testify to the strength of women who – even if wounded – do not give up and fight for a better future.
The touching monologue performed by the actress Cinzia Bochicchio, taken from a work by the director Massimo Graffeo, preceded the concert of the “Mauro Carpi quartet” which – with its jazz – closed the appreciated initiative at the Palace of Justice in Marsala.
