Dozens of balloons, white and blue, some of them heart-shaped, took off as Selene Pagliarello passed the coffin, who would have turned 31 today, and on Wednesday she would have become the mother of little Samuele. This was the most heartbreaking moment - with tears, sobs and screams - of the farewell to the nine coffins with the victims of the Ravanusa tragedy due to the explosion of the pipeline that destroyed 4 buildings and damaged 100 buildings. Shortly before, Mayor Carmelo D'Angelo, visibly moved, had asked the Minister of Infrastructure Enrico Giovannini and the President of the Region Nello Musumeci - who attended the solemn funeral held in Piazza Primo Maggio - to "think about reconstruction". "Open today the book of concreteness for the dozens of displaced people.We will not forget what happened in the safest place in the life of each of us: the house, we will name a street after the victims of the Via Trilussa massacre, but we must think about reconstruction. This is the time of grief and commemoration, but we need to think about the people who have nothing left, "he said.
The funeral of the nine victims of the Ravanusa disaster took place in a surreal silence, interrupted only by desperate tears. The Archbishop of Agrigento, Monsignor Alessandro Damiano, who officiated the solemn funeral, also asked for an answer on the causes of the tragedy: "What is the meaning of all this? perhaps a greater prudence and attention could have been avoided. It has grown dark in the lives of the victims, their families, in Ravanusa and Campobello di Licata where Selene and Giuseppe lived and where little Samuele who did not have time to be born would arrive, but that he was fully one of us. From this, as from so many tragedies in history, we must get up ".
To listen to the words of the archbishop, in silence, some embraced and covered by a woolen mantle, the families of the victims. Not far away, among the authorities, in addition to the Minister Giovannini and the President of the Musumeci Region, also the national head of Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio and the prefect Laura Leo who heads the fire department.
All were welcomed by the prefect of Agrigento Maria Rita Cocciufa. The coffins arrived in Corso Repubblica - lined in mourning with several wreaths of flowers, among which the gigantic one with the photo of Selene Pagliarello and Giuseppe Carmina and the smaller heart with the inscription Samuele and a soft toy stood out - and on the shoulder were brought up in front of the Mother Church. Attending the funeral ceremony, in uniform, wearing the same helmets used in the days of search and rescue among the rubble, the firefighters. Words of faith, shortly before the blessing of all those present at the funeral ceremony, were expressed by Eliana, wife of Giuseppe Carmina: the 33-year-old painter who was among the latest victims extracted from the mountain of debris. "The house is empty,little girls cry - he said - but with Christ everything becomes more bearable. Let's not stop at the material because everything is destroyed with a blast. My Peppe is not in that coffin because he will live forever. "A few meters away also Eliana's sister-in-law, Sister Agata who returned from the Turin convent as soon as she heard of the tragedy and who, for hours and hours, he waited, crying and praying, for the bodies of his father and brother Giuseppe to be extracted from the garage where they were located and on which 4 attics collapsed. This morning, the deputy prosecutor Salvatore Vella, the prosecutor Sara Varazi, Prosecutor of Agrigento and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater opened in via Trilussa.is destroyed. My Peppe is not in that coffin because he will live forever. "A few meters away also Eliana's sister-in-law, Sister Agata who returned from the Turin convent as soon as she heard of the tragedy and who, for hours and hours, he waited, crying and praying, for the bodies of his father and brother Giuseppe to be extracted from the garage where they were located and on which 4 attics collapsed. This morning, the deputy prosecutor Salvatore Vella, the prosecutor Sara Varazi, Prosecutor of Agrigento and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater opened in via Trilussa.is destroyed. My Peppe is not in that coffin because he will live forever. "A few meters away also Eliana's sister-in-law, Sister Agata who returned from the Turin convent as soon as she heard of the tragedy and who, for hours and hours, he waited, crying and praying, for the bodies of his father and brother Giuseppe to be extracted from the garage where they were located and on which 4 attics collapsed. This morning, the deputy prosecutor Salvatore Vella, the prosecutor Sara Varazi, Prosecutor of Agrigento and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater opened in via Trilussa.Sister Agata who returned from the convent of Turin to Ravanusa as soon as she heard of the tragedy and who, for hours and hours, waited, crying and praying, for the bodies of her father and brother Giuseppe to be extracted from the garage where they were and on which 4 floors collapsed. This morning, the deputy prosecutor Salvatore Vella, the prosecutor Sara Varazi, the technical consultants of the Agrigento Public Prosecutor's Office and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater that opened in via Trilussa.Sister Agata who returned from the convent of Turin to Ravanusa as soon as she heard of the tragedy and who, for hours and hours, waited, crying and praying, for the bodies of her father and brother Giuseppe to be extracted from the garage where they were and on which 4 floors collapsed. This morning, the deputy prosecutor Salvatore Vella, the prosecutor Sara Varazi, the technical consultants of the Agrigento Public Prosecutor's Office and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater that opened in via Trilussa.the technical consultants of the Prosecutor of Agrigento and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater which opened in via Trilussa.the technical consultants of the Prosecutor of Agrigento and the firefighters carried out an inspection in the area of the crater which opened in via Trilussa.
Technical checks and inspections, carried out by the engineers who are the consultants of the Public Prosecutor's Office, have also extended to the entire devastated surrounding area.
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