Giovanbattista Cutolo's mother and father kissed the white coffin as they left the church. The people crowded in the square throw flowers and those closest to the barriers ask the policemen to lay flowers inside the hearse to symbolically accompany the young musician on his last journey. In the square the cry 'Giovanni lives' was raised, while another very long applause accompanies the wagon that leaves the square. "Tomorrow I will go to Prime Minister Meloni especially for this, because she is very close to me, the institutions have all come. The innocent death of Giovanbattista must serve the redemption of humanity, it was a crime against humanity to kill my son". So at the end of the funeral Daniela Di Maggio, the mother of Giovanbattista, the musician killed in Naples.
Video Musician killed, poignant notes for Giovanni Cutolo in church
"I wouldn't want to be here today. I would not like to be here to accompany yet another young son of Naples, killed for no reason by the hand of another son of this city. I would not like to be here not because I want to escape the immense pain of Giovanbattista's parents and of all those - relatives, friends, companions - who mourn him with a broken heart and torn by anguish, disbelief, bewilderment. I wouldn't want to be here because I just wished there wasn't a reason." This was said by the archbishop of Naples, Don Mimmo Battaglia, in his homily, during the funeral of Giovanbattista Cutolo, the young musician killed. "And more than talking about Giovanbattista I would have liked to talk to Giovanbattista, more than hearing about him, his skill, his art and desire to live, I would have liked to touch it with my hands, perhaps listening to a concert of his orchestra or one of his magnificent compositions, like the one his father made me listen to a few days ago. But, unfortunately, none of us has the power to change reality, none of us can turn back the hands of history and time, stopping that very young but already deviated hand, as unfortunately happens so many times with the boys of this city", added the bishop of Naples. .
'Life imprisonment for the fool, life imprisonment for the fool. It's not fair.' Giovanbattista's mother repeats it. The woman called Giogio's friends to gather next to the coffin. "That fool killed an entire community," says the mother. "We must change history with the death of Giogio", his death was a sacrifice - he added - it was a beacon, it is unacceptable. I prepared the dress for him because he wanted to go to the concert with Scarlatti and now he is in the coffin.
Before the beginning of Giovanbattista Cutolo's funeral, the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano and the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, arrived in the church in Naples, who embraced his mother for a long time. Also present in the front row were the governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca and the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi. Many representatives of the institutions, such as Antonio Bassolino, the former ministers Roberto Speranza and Sergio Costa, the parliamentarians Borrelli and Patriarca, and of Culture such as Maurizio De Giovanni. The Church of Gesù Nuovo is crowded with many friends of Giogiò, musicians and ordinary citizens. At the foot of the altar was also exposed a banner of the Teatro San Carlo. Soon the funeral ceremony will begin presided over by the bishop of Naples, Monsignor Domenico Battaglia. On the wall of the 'Foscolo' school, adjacent to the church, the banner 'Now plays with angels. Hello Giogiò'.
Video Musician killed, the coffin in the church between applause and requests for 'justice'
"I wouldn't want to be here today. I would not like to be here to accompany yet another young son of Naples, killed for no reason by the hand of another son of this city. I would not like to be here not because I want to escape the immense pain of Giovanbattista's parents and of all those - relatives, friends, companions - who mourn him with a broken heart and torn by anguish, disbelief, bewilderment. I wouldn't want to be here because I just wished there wasn't a reason." This was said by the archbishop of Naples, Don Mimmo Battaglia, in his homily, during the funeral of Giovanbattista Cutolo, the young musician killed. "And more than talking about Giovanbattista I would have liked to talk to Giovanbattista, more than hearing about him, his skill, his art and desire to live, I would have liked to touch it with my hands, perhaps listening to a concert of his orchestra or one of his magnificent compositions, like the one his father made me listen to a few days ago. But, unfortunately, none of us has the power to change reality, none of us can turn back the hands of history and time, stopping that very young but already deviated hand, as unfortunately happens so many times with the boys of this city", added the bishop of Naples. .
"Forgive us all Giogiò, because we have armed that hand too, with our delays, with the promises not kept, with the proclamations, the posts, the communiqués that have not been followed by actions, with our inability to understand the endemic problems of this city inhabited even by adolescents - little more than children - who walk armed, as in a city at war". This was said by the bishop of Naples, Don Mimmo Battaglia, during the homily for the funeral of Giovanbattista Cutolo.
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