The city of Alba gathers around the family of Davide Giri, the 30-year-old researcher killed in New York on Thursday.
"A hug from all of us, Prof. Giri", we read on the website of the high school of the town in the province of Cuneo, where he teaches mathematics.
On Tuesday afternoon, in the Cathedral, there will be a moment of prayer and reflection.
To allow children to participate, the afternoon lessons at the Liceo Artistico are canceled.
"The Liceo Classico with the Liceo Artistico - we read again - hugs Professor Giri and his family in a choral embrace. Aware that at this moment we can only make very small gestures, we still want to meet again to remember a young modern hero, who he has overcome many challenges with his intelligence, resourcefulness and sunshine, overwhelmed by the darkness of a blind and abysmal evil, and we want to be close to his loved ones with prayer or meditation ".
Giri had been a student of the Cocito Scientific High School in Alba, where he graduated in 2009. Before joining Columbia University, he had graduated with honors in Information technology engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin. Specializing at Tongji University in Shanghai, the thirty-year-old had a master's degree in electronic engineering, also from the Turin Polytechnic, and one from the University of Illinois in Chicago. He had lived in New York since 2016.
"Davide was much more than what the newspapers wrote", said Davide Giri's parents to the bishop of Alba, Monsignor Marco Brunetti, who this morning visited the family in the house in Scaparoni, a hamlet of Alba. "He truly honored the fourth commandment, honors his father and mother, and had a great sense of family", added the boy's parents, father Renato and mother Giuseppina, well known in the city for volunteering, an activity that also carried out the son. .
The bishop of Alba, Monsignor Marco Brunetti, this morning brought condolences to the family of Davide Giri, the Italian researcher murdered on Thursday in New York.
The young man, who before leaving Italy lived with his parents and brothers in Scaparoni, a hamlet of Alba, was well known in the city for his commitment as a volunteer in the parishes of Santa Margherita and Mussotto.
"In visiting Davide's family, father, mother, brother and sister, I was able to express my personal closeness and that of the Christian community of Alba - says Monsignor Brunetti - and I shared the pain of a family afflicted by what had happened but full of Christian hope. ".