Wednesday 29 May 2024 – Rossella Casini's birthday – in the Pio Palms– the ceremony for awarding prizes to the participants will take place Rossella Casini Literary Competition.
The literary prize, established by the Presidium Free Palmiin February 2021, 40 years after the disappearance of the young student killed, torn to pieces and made to disappear in the sea of Palmi, is motivated by the desire to remember Rossella Casini every year by also remembering the other innocent victims of the area
The fourth edition (February – May 2024) was dedicated to the memory and memory of Dr. Luigi Ioculano – barbarously killed on 25 September 1998 in Gioia Tauro, a few steps from his doctor's office.
The students who took part in the competition, after having “imagined listening to the voice of the doctor Luigi Ioculano who still reaches our consciousness today through his writings in the newspaper Agorà” wrote several papers. The schools called to collect the prizes are the Istituto Comprensivo 1 F. Pentimalli of Gioia Tauro and the two Istituto Comprensivos of Palmi De Zerbi-Milone and San Francesco.
During the ceremony, before the award ceremony, the memory of doctor Luigi Ioculano will be traced by the journalist and writer Arcangelo Badolati. To enhance the message of hope that emerges from each individual paper and enhance the students' commitment, the unit will collect the papers (54) in a book that will be delivered to the doctor's family. Ioculano.