Rome, church packed for the funeral of Gaia and Camilla. Harsh homily: 'Is the meaning of life to drive high or drunk?'

Un lungo applauso accompagnato dalle note, suonate dal vivo, delle canzoni ‘A te’ di Lorenzo Jovanotti e ‘Ti voglio bene’ di Tiziano Ferro, hanno accompagnato l’uscita delle bare bianche di Gaia e Camilla, le sedicenni morte investite a Roma, al termine dei funerali. Gremita la chiesa del Preziosissimo Sangue del Fleming e anche il viale di accesso. Una parente all’uscita ha accusato un malore ed è stata soccorsa da personale di un’ambulanza ferma all’esterno della chiesa per tutta la funzione. Sul luogo dell’incidente è stato affisso uno striscione “Ciao Angeli”.

The priest's homily – “Camilla had asked a few days ago at lunch with her parents and sister Giorgia what the meaning of life was. When you drive drunk or high, is this life? Blowing it up in smoke? Deep down we feel omnipotent and then we can't follow the basic rules of coexistence”. This is what the priest said in his homily during the funeral. “We all rediscover ourselves as a bit of a windbag – he added -. The meaning of life is not drinking and smoking”. “For days we have been asking ourselves why. We question the senselessness of what happened. We are groping in the dark. Today's is the big hug we give to Gaia and Camilla's parents, in this dark hour”, added the priest.

“One of the foundations of our family has been lost. You were the little one in the house. You were embarrassed every time someone talked about you, you didn’t like feeling the eyes on you. You felt imperfect.” Giorgia, Camilla’s sister, said this during the funerals of the 16-year-old girls hit by a car in Rome. “A few days at the table you asked what the meaning of life was and I didn’t know how to answer,” she added. “A few days later I found the answer: the meaning of my life is you.”

The message from Gaia's parents - "The death of a child is so unnatural that it has made our condition unspeakable. This is also why we have not spoken to anyone so far and today we ask for respect for our pain and our silence". Thus, through their lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, the parents of Gaia, one of the two girls who died in the car accident in Rome. "When we find the right words we will have our say on the many reconstructions spread by the media with too much lightness - they continue - Gaia was full of joy for life, but she was also mature and responsible".

“Whoever loses a spouse is a widower, whoever loses a parent is an orphan. Those who, like us, lose a daughter do not even have a name to define them: the death of a child is so unnatural that it has made our condition unspeakable, it is literally “something that cannot be said”. This is also why we have not spoken to anyone so far and today we ask for respect for our pain and our silence”, they say, through their lawyer Giulia Bongiorno, Gabriella Saracino and Edward von Freymann. “When we find the right words we will speak, and we will have our say on the many reconstructions that have been spread by the media too lightly in recent days - they continue - For the moment, we invite those who write about this tragedy to be prudent and scrupulous”. “Gaia was full of joy for life, but she was also mature and responsible. We miss her very much. For this reason we would like to thank those who cried with us, those who offered us comfort and support”, they conclude.

Multiple road homicide. This is the charge on which the 20-year-old was arrested yesterday who, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, was driving the car that hit and killed two sixteen-year-olds in Corso Francia, Rome. Pietro Genovese, son of director Paolo, is now under house arrest.

The order was notified to him at the end of the first investigations conducted by the local police of Rome Capitale and based on the report sent to the Prosecutor's Office. The boy's situation had already worsened immediately after the fatal accident that cost the lives of sixteen-year-olds Camilla Romagnoli and Gaia Von Freyman. The tests he had been subjected to, in fact, had revealed an alcohol level three times higher than the permitted level and traces of narcotics. Genovese's past also includes two episodes of drug possession, in relation to which it seems his license was suspended, which was only recently returned. In fact, the boy's positive drug test would have convinced the public prosecutors to request the precautionary measure.