The applause during the screening of the film Fortapasc continues to be discussed, while the images of the murder of the journalist Giancarlo Siani at the hands of the Camorra by a small group of students from the Amedeo Maiuri Comprehensive Institute of Vomero continue to be discussed. The gesture did not go unnoticed. The victim’s brother, the doctor Paolo Siani, was disconcerted and wrote on social media: “You never applaud death for anyone”. The Minister of Education, Giuseppe Valditara, immediately intervened and said he wanted to act immediately to understand how much Meanwhile, a teacher who accompanied the children while watching the film tries to explain how things really happened. The teacher told the media that the students also applauded during other scenes, as a sign of emotion in front of what they were experiencing seeing.
Paolo Siani: death is not applauded
“Death is never applauded for anyone” writes Paolo Siani, the victim’s brother, on social media. Then he continues: “In the face of death we remain silent, this doesn’t even need to be explained. But if it happens, if some kids, a few, very young ones, from a school that is working hard to raise in them the sense of legality and justice, they applaud violent death and therefore choose to be on the side of those who shoot, we all need to ask ourselves why. Now, immediately, before it is too late. We cannot pretend nothing has happened, we must intervene , explain, tell, and we must do it with more strength, more vehemence, more courage, more passion, everyone because it concerns us all.”
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The Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara writes on Facebook: ”The school is and must be the first safeguard of legality, it is and must be a community, by definition, antithetical to any mentality that recalls the mafia one or even applauds to it.” Then the minister continues: “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 Fortapasc by some students, disconcerts and worries me. . Today I therefore intend to take action to shed full light on what happened”.
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Also shocked and worried is the anti-mafia journalist Paolo Borrometi, who has been involved in the fight against the mafia for years and has been under guard for over 10 years for reporting on the mafia in Sicily, his homeland. “First the question of naming the Partinico high school after Peppino Impastato rejected by the students because it was “divisive”, now these macabre applause. We must intervene before it is too late”, he said. For the president of the principals of the ANP of Rome, Mario Rusconi, these episodes “are not only to be stigmatised, but also require intervention with the training measures that the school has. These include a re-education path for those children who – or for a silly and foolish prank or for negative intentions – they intend to praise situations which, instead, require a unanimous condemnation not only of the entire school community, but of the entire social system”.
