Riziero Santi, a provincial hall dedicated to Pironi, the commissioner with folders under his arm
Words alone are incapable of expressing the vastness of dismay and pain, the impotence of human reason in understanding the meaning of such tragic events, the impossibility of our hearts to accept such an alien and indifferent destiny. All we can do is remember and honor Francesca Conti, Rossella De Luca, Maria Aluigi, Valentina Ubaldi, Alfredo Barbieri, Romina Bannini and Massimo Pironi. They left together, united as many other times by the common project, that project that is CENTRO 21. After the stunning first hours I want to remember them at the funeral, first of all, as a group of friends who have done so many beautiful and good things together, I say it just like that, with simple, almost childish words, but the most heartfelt, precise, exact, that there are: beautiful and good things. A few words for my (our) friend Massimo. Massimo was an intelligent, kind, helpful man. In front of his inevitable smile you had the feeling, even the awareness, that everything can be resolved. I carry him inside me like this, Massimo, with that smile of his. I worked with him for many years, before Massimo embarked on the adventure in the world of social and voluntary work where he was able to put his human qualities and his skills to good use in the sign of sharing. He embodied the politician and the administrator of concreteness and operation. As a councilor, first municipal and then provincial, as regional councilor and then as mayor, more than sitting at his desk you saw him wandering in the corridors for offices and for meetings with the folders of files and projects under his arm. I would also like to recall his (our) first social commitment, as a boy, with the Riccione Association for Emancipation, APE, linked to the fight against drug addiction that in particular afflicted our children at that time. One of my last acts as President of the Province of Rimini will be to present the title of the representative room of the Province in Corso d’Augusto to Massimo Pironi in the Provincial Council. In a while the spotlight will go out on this disaster and our memory and the pain of the closest family and friends will remain. We all have the duty to think about the aftermath, about how to not leave those children and families alone and to give continuity to the development projects of the social cooperative conceived by Massimo and his children. From the CENTRO 21 website we receive an invitation “to smile, joyfully… or sometimes even bitterly… of us and our children… and, if we feel like it… to do it with them”. I think this is a good invitation for each of us.
cs Riziero Santi, president of the province of Rimini