It’s a wound that has never healed: two dead and ten injured under the “Sniper’s” blows.
Above, the plaque in memory of the security guard Luigi Zippo. Below, after the vandalism
Of the massacre in Via Fratelli Gualandi, which took place in Guidonia Montecelio on 3 November 2007, the plaques of the two victims, “Pino” Di Gianfelice and Luigi Zippo, the security guard who intervened to help, remained in memory on the surrounding wall of the former Health District. of the tattoo artist and passers-by who became the target of the madness of Angelo Spagnoli, the former Army Captain nicknamed the “Sniper”.
Now all that remains of the plaque in memory of Luigi Zippo is a piece of defaced travertine.
Unknown persons in fact tore up and destroyed the photo of the security guard, erasing with white paint the dedication of the colleagues of the “Master Police”: “In memory of Luigi Zippo – it was written – who on 3 November 2007 with great spirit of sacrifice and generosity he gave his life for others.”
A cowardly and shameful gesture, according to the mayor of Guidonia Montecelio Mauro Lombardo.
“I am deeply outraged by the cowardly act against the memory of the Security Guard Luigi Zippo, killed in the sadly well-known news story attributable to the “Guidonia Sniper” affair. – writes the mayor in a note – The damage to the commemorative plaque present in via Fratelli Gualandi, in memory of the massacre of 3 November 2007, is an attack on the dignity, respect and memory of a man who sacrificed his life to save others in the fulfillment of his duty and , in particular, to provide aid to the other victim, Pino Di Gianfelice”.
“I express my solidarity, and that of the City, to Luigi Zippo’s family, his loved ones and colleagues – continues Mayor Lombardo – We cannot and must not allow the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for the common good to be tarnished by acts of contempt that have nothing to do with our community.
We will restore the plaque as soon as possible because the City has not forgotten, and will never forget, the heroic and altruistic gesture of these two heroes”.
