Florence, Don Ciotti to the students: “The mafia is getting stronger but the school scares them”
Florence, 15 February 2022 – “Culture, school and knowledge in general are scary mafia, who grow fat in indifference, selfishness and ignorance. The mafia wants complacent subjects, not aware citizens of their rights and responsible for their duties “. Here it is one of the many passionate phrases pronounced this morning by the president of the Libera association Don Luigi Ciotti, in occasion of a meeting with over 1600 students of secondary schools (partly in attendance and the remainder in connection) which was held this morning at Palacongressi of Florence, on the occasion of the opening of the Metropolitan Legality Plan, initiated by the Metropolitan City, the Provincial School Office and the network of Municipalities of the Florentine area.
Interviewed by the director of the Nation Agnese Pini, who asked Don Ciotti just some of the many questions that came from the students, the president of Libera then added that “the law on assets confiscated from the mafia was one of the best answers”. Too bad, he added, that “half of these assets are not used. Indeed, many are abandoned. More could be done. However, confiscation is a slap in the face of those who have chosen the male and it represents a social and cultural reclamation ».
Then there was talk of loneliness (“It was already there before the pandemic, but Covid has amplified the loneliness of our young people. Fear and bewilderment pervade the younger generations. And it gives the chills to know that psychological malaise has reached very high peaks “, the words of Don Ciotti), of injustice (” We must respond by creating paths of justice. Never fear, guys. All together, with humility, we can do it Justice is the goal and the primary legality represents a tool to achieve it “) and of symbolic figures such as that of Rossella Casini (” It touches my heart to think that a school bears her name. People like her have died to chase justice. Here, we must be more alive than them “).
Don Ciotti finally warned about the “criminal presence of the Mafia, today stronger in the center north than in the south”. Unfortunately, “land mafias are stronger than before, even if there is less talk about it “. It is no coincidence that Libera was among the first associations to talk about “mafia-virus“. “Where tragedies and disasters occur, the mafia ‘sniff’, they have money ready to bribe – said Don Ciotti -. Today the mafia is sometimes found in corrupt white-collar workers. It is very present in the ‘good lounges’. And then there is the deviant Freemasonry. In short, with the coronavirus the underworld finds fertile ground “. “Italy – he added – has the best laws in the fight against the mafia; therefore serve a European political vision. We need a new humanism. Mafia violence appears weaker only because less blood flows and does not appear in its ferocity as in the great massacres. But unfortunately the mafia is well present “. The initiative, introduced by some musical performances by the students of the Dante high school, was attended by the councilor among others Sara Funnarothe director of the Usp Roberto Curtolo and the regional president of Libera, Don Andrea Bigalli, who denounced how “unfortunately the news shows us a Tuscan entrepreneurial reality that does not think twice about making transversal deals with the mafias, in absolute contempt for public health”.
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