After the dramatic murder of La Spezia Italy is invaded by knives: real ones, that for years unfortunately teens carry with themselves and often use with ease, and the media, because there is no newspaper or talk in which you do not talk about this theme. As if adults, all adults of the so-called public debate, had discovered it now. From politics to journalism, to professors, to professional moralists.
That a Moroccan boy, Atif, stabbed another boy to death at school, Youssef, Egyptian, perhaps by jealousy, upset our country. There are those who immediately threw it into propaganda, never so low as with the Meloni government; who took it with the Minister of Education Valditara, who rushed to indirect (he is serious person, I know him) tables on tables in the hope that you will arrive at the true focus of the matter.
You go to school with a knife because you go around with a knife. I who live in Milan can speak to you a whole night of North African baby gangs, but also of South American or Italian baby gangs, or of scattered individuals who, for fear or paranoia or for a distorted vision of life, bring it with them: the blade.
In the new security decree there is awareness of this: parents and even traders are responsible, even online. But twice I had to change school to my son for bullying. What about the pros? A little far away, little prepared for the new internet company and its models without limits.
The theme is therefore social, cultural, economic. It is vast and implies a value of the Other by itself very low, a value of human life null. These things should be taught at school, which instead becomes the crime scene. But we don’t do our finger with superficiality. We have been talking about it for years and it is difficult to act on the malaise and inequality, and on the individual fragility of children.
Of course, we need stricter standards, but above all training and communication and points of association of souls and bodies that are not stadiums or discos. Here a majority and opposition must put together ideas, as we do in a good democracy, to give future protagonists to this democracy itself. And do not see young faces in the picture magnified on the bed of a desperate father in tears.
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