Once these things happened, at least in Italy, only for football. This beginning does not absolve anyone and does not condemn the world of football. But a brutal murder linked to the rivalry between fans of two basketball teams, in our country, had never happened. The facts, dramatic, are summed up as always in a few monstrous lines: a stone knocked out a bus’s glass and killed a 65-year-old unconscious driver. An innocent, guilty of nothing, who would soon retire. Raffaele Marianella, Roman, but resident in Florence. To him goes our thought, and to the family a hug. The State is now responsible for securing truth and justice, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has reacted with disdain and hardness: unacceptable things, the responsible will pay.
Twelve people, when I write, are under investigation. The attack would perhaps have been organized in chat, while the bus with the Pistoiese players had just left Rieti, where there was a game – let’s say so – turned on. But let us clarify immediately: the most blind game in the world, of any sport, can not confuse in a chase, in an ambush, in a brutal assassination. It seems that the victim did not even have time to scan or realize anything, and that the object launched was not the ball of a sling for boys. You wanted to get hurt here. Here the situation blinded the head, rationality, control, limit, decency, respect for life. We do not even call it typhus, and we do not seek – even in the investigations and interrogations – who knows what “why” or who knows what fatalities. The drama is that today violence invades everything and there is nothing that can represent a limit.
Let’s go back to the beginning. The fact that these follies were related to the world of the ball is not an anesthetic of nothing. That world has done and does its battles. Now it is also up to other sports, where once perhaps pathological passions did not find symbols or motivations. But we don’t do sociologists or sports moralists. I think rather of a widespread social suffering, of a grave and deep malaise, which must by now find a outlet — and that, when it finds it, it spreads. I’m not even convinced of ideological reading: we speak of extreme right in the first investigations, but the investigations will tell us something more. Now remains the dismay, remains the pain and loss of all our values. A man is gone after a basketball game.
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