After the students’ applause at the final bars of “Fortapàsc”, the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara takes to the field and says he is “concerned” and intends to “shed full light on what happened”. The story dates back to last week. We are at the Plaza cinema, in Naples, Vomero area. At the end of the film, which portrays the death of the “Il Mattino” reporter killed with a barrage of bullets by two Camorra hitmen in 1985, some students from the Amedeo Maiuri middle school clap their hands. There are those who interpret the applause as a tribute to the film, but the episode immediately appears suspicious, and one of the teachers present “reprimands the students”, as witnessed by other pupils accompanied by their parents. It should be underlined that Maiuri, which is based a few steps from the house and the site of Siani’s murder, has long undertaken a training course to educate young people about legality and the fight against organized crime.
The clapback case has taken on national proportions. «The school is and must be the first safeguard of legality – the words of Minister Valditara, published in a post on social media – It is and must be a community, by definition, antithetical to any mentality that recalls the mafia one or even applauds it. For this reason, the gravity of the gesture of applauding the brutal Camorra murder of the journalist Giancarlo Siani, as happened in Naples during the screening of the film “Fortapàsc” by some students, disconcerts and worries me. I therefore intend to take action to shed full light on what happened.” The president of the ANP, National Association of Principals of Rome, Mario Rusconi, agrees: «I believe that episodes like the one in Naples, in which the end of a courageous journalist is applauded, are not only to be stigmatised, but also require that we intervene with the training measures that the school has”. The screening of Marco Risi’s film at the Plaza preceded by a few days the meeting of the Maiuri students with Gianmario Siani, Giancarlo’s nephew.
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Three days ago, the Siani Foundation published the following post on Facebook, written by Paolo Siani, Giancarlo’s brother and former deputy: «You don’t applaud death, ever, for anyone. This doesn’t need to be explained, it should be part of the human soul. In the face of death we remain silent, this doesn’t even need to be explained. But if instead it happens, if some kids, a few, very young ones, from a school that is working hard to raise in them a sense of legality and justice, applaud the violent death and therefore choose to be on the side of those who shoot, there ‘we all need to ask ourselves why. Now, now, before it’s too late.” Paolo Siani’s idea is to organize a further meeting with the Maiuri students, to which Valditara will also be invited.
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