"Here, while my dad Gino Strada was leaving, I was doing this thing here":
Cecilia Strada wrote it today on social media posting the video of the rescue made yesterday by the ResQ-saving people ship
. The first completed by the expedition, on the day of the death of the founder of Emergency, to whom the rescue was dedicated. "One life went away, eighty-four lives went aboard. In safety. And it seems to me a good way of saying goodbye. Hello popes - he concluded -. Good wind, calm sea".
"I advance to all the groups present in the City Council the proposal to name a public place in our city after Gino Strada, who died at 73. Being a personality who has disappeared for less than ten years, we will ask the prefect for an exception". This is what
Roberto Di Stefano, mayor of Sesto San Giovanni
writes
, the town on the outskirts of Milan where the founder of Emergency was born
. "For the commitment, the passion and the great love that he has put into all his activities in Italy and abroad, we believe it is right - he adds - that his name and his memory be engraved forever in a public place in Sesto Saint John".