Messina, an ambulance dedicated to Sara Campanella: “Her memory will continue to travel to serve the community”

The new ambulance of the Misericordia Odv which will be inaugurated this evening at 7.30 pm in the courtyard of the Rectorate bears the name of Sara Campanella. A tribute to the student from Misilmeri who studied biomedical laboratory techniques at the Messina Polyclinic and was one step away from graduating, but was stabbed to death, six months ago, by a fellow student whom she had rejected several times. The young woman’s name was engraved on the side of the ambulance together with the phrase “I love myself too much to be with anyone” that Sara had written on her social profile before being killed by Stefano Argentino who committed suicide a few months later in prison, shortly before the start of the trial. “The ambulance dedicated to Sara – said Pietro Delia, governor of the Misericordia of Messina – so that her memory continues to travel to serve the community. This is the motivation that pushed the governance of the association to this gesture. The aim is to transform the pain of the loss of this girl into an act of love for the community”. The ceremony will be attended by the student’s family members, the mayor Federico Basile, the rector Giovanna Spatari, the archbishop Monsignor Giovanni Accolla, the president of Seus 118 Riccardo Castro, a delegation from the 118 operations center of Messina, the director of the UOC emergency room of the Policlinico Giovanni Di Maio and Father Giovanni Pelleriti spiritual corrector of the Misericordia. The ceremony will be preceded by the screening at 7 pm, at the Apollo cinema, of the docufilm “Fili Invisibili” by the Messina director Fabio Schifilliti, as part of the “Beyond the shadows” project of the Copernico institute with the stories of Sara Campanella and Graziella Recupero, a nineteen-year-old student killed in 1956 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto by a peer she had rejected. Two similar stories and with the same tragic epilogue.