His dad has just made time to know him, too little, however, to have memories. Those had to build them step by step through the stories of his mother, from the black and white photos scattered around the house.
And then there are the stories of his father’s colleagues, those who shared with the brigadier Antonino Marino the terrible years of the kidnappings of person in Aspromonte and the fight against clans who poisoned life in the countries of Locride.
Today Francesco Marino dresses the same uniform as the carabinieri of his father“Honor and great burden” for a Son of a military of the weapon, killed by the ‘Ndrangheta on the evening of 9 September 1990 in Bovalino, when Francesco was just a year and a half and his father 30. In that ambush he too were injured and his mother. The clans of Platì, where Antonino Marino had directed the Carabinieri station for several years, had not forgiven him the zeal with whom he hunted the seizurers and the ‘ndranghetists of the country.
On the day that commemorates all the victims of the mafia, Major Marino will participate in one of the many events scheduled to bring his testimony of son and carabinieri among citizens because “memory – he says – is the first step to counteract organized crime”.
The same commitment that leads him to often meet school children, even if they are far from Calabria, from the Bovalino one where he grew up together with his mother and his family. The major after 10 years in Sicily was transferred to Rovigo, in Veneto.
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