Once these things happened, at least in Italy, only for football. This beginning does not absolve anyone and does not condemn the world of football. But a brutal murder linked to the rivalry between fans of two basketball teams, in our country, had never happened. The facts, dramatic, are summed up as always in a few monstrous lines: a stone knocked out a bus’s glass and killed a 65-year-old unconscious driver. An innocent, guilty of nothing, who would soon retire. Raffaele Marianella, Roman, but resident in Florence. To him goes our thought, and to the family a hug. The State is now responsible for securing truth and justice, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has reacted with disdain and hardness: unacceptable things, the responsible will pay.
Twelve people, when I write, are under investigation. The attack would perhaps have been organized in chat, while the bus with the Pistoiese players had just left Rieti, where there was a game – let’s say so – turned on. But let us clarify immediately: the most blind game in the world, of any sport, can not confuse in a chase, in an ambush, in a brutal assassination.
It seems that the victim did not even have time to scan or realize anything, and that the object launched was not the ball of a sling for boys. You wanted to get hurt here. Here the situation blinded the head, rationality, control, limit, decency, respect for life. We don’t even call it typhus, and we don’t go looking – even in the investigations and interrogations – who knows what “why” or who knows what fatalities.
The drama is that today violence invades everything and there is nothing that can represent a limit.
