Mattia and Simone. Two names that will remain forever in everyone’s memory and heart. If, as Isabelle Allende writes “Love is the only remedy against death”, then Mattia and Simone have not quite completely died: they will live forever in the heart of their loved ones, their friends, of an entire city that sublimated the pain of the condolence last night in an immense act of love. From the Pozzogottese Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta to the gates of the Comprehensive Institute of Alcontres, hundreds of boys from Barcelona and Milazzocivil and military authorities, teachers and school managers, association delegations and simple citizens have moved in a torchlight procession in which the astonished disbelief has given way to tragic awareness. Shiny eyes, faces and different generations united in a single pain. Because you can’t die so soon. In a transition from life to death consumed in the moment of a blink of the eyelash. A live, rough, difficult pain that of family members, who yesterday received a visit to the auxiliary bishop Cesare Di Pietro To soothe a suffering impossible to imagine, and that, in front of the wall where the lifeless bodies of the two boys lay, they knelt by stroking the sidewalk, tangled in a bruised pain. Father Santino Colosi, Duomo Santa Maria Assunta, who knew them as children, thus expresses his thoughts: “We saw them grow Mattia and Simone in the Pozzogottese community: at school, in the parish, in his free time. Educated, esteemed, appreciated by everyone. They have enthusiastically experienced their short life. Today I think them embraced as true and sincere friends, welcomed by a friend who has always wanted to be well and accompanied by angel. Benvegna, Copernicus manager: “Simone was a brilliant, kind, full of life. He leaves an unbridgeable void. As a school we suspended all the non -essential activities and exposed the flag at half auction. Upon returning from holidays we will dedicate a special moment to his memory and we will continue our commitment to prevention and education to road safety”. And then the boys, with the white T -shirts and the faces of Mattia and Simone, friends, schoolmates, simple acquaintances. They were all there. Side by side. Some unable to speak. Marco Sindoni, 14, from Fermi: “I knew Mattia, he had a big heart. This tragedy was a great lesson of life, because something happened that could happen to anyone, and this makes us think!”. Noemi Sottile, Erika Beninati and Clarissa Torre, 15 years old from Majorana: “We knew Mattia of Vista, but it was the same a serious blow to know of his death. They did not know that this would have been their last day … so we must learn to live thinking that nothing is obvious, that everything can happen, even the unimaginable”.
John
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