Naples. “If the City Council decides that the mural should be covered, we will not make any opposition”.
Vincenzo Russo, father of Ugo, the 15-year-old killed on the night of March 1st last year by an off-duty carabiniere during an attempted robbery, says this. The clarification came during a meeting with the press and Vincenzo Russo wanted to return to the story that has been making headlines in recent weeks, on the need or otherwise to remove the mural of his son Ugo, in the Spanish Quarters.
“We used all the procedures and it took us 11 days, not 11 hours – thunders Vincenzo Russo -. We had 3 checks a day, but the mural is illegal only now. And we also got the ok from the condominium, a condominium that has suffered for 40-50 years, like when the garbage reaches the windows of the buildings”.
The father then insists: “The mural is not a hymn to crime, otherwise we would not have done it by writing 'truth and justice'. Because of that mural, my son has faded into the background. The mural was made to cry out our pain”. With regard to the mural of the other young man who died during a robbery, Luigi Caiafa, removed a few days ago, Vincenzo Russo explains: “Social violence. Going at 7 in the morning, without even warning. The more we are crushed, the more they want to crush us. We only want truth and justice. If my son made a mistake, there was prison and communities to recover the boys. We want to know if my son should have been killed in that way, if he deserved to die with 3 bullets, 1 of which was in the back of the head”.
The mural dedicated to the baby-robber Ugo Russo will not be removed, at least for now. This morning, the interventions for the removal of the maxi-face of Russo in the Spanish Quarters should have begun, as foreseen by a municipal ordinance, and instead, as reported by Il Mattino, everything will remain unchanged at least until further notice while the Committee "Truth and Justice for Ugo Russo" has presented an appeal to stop the municipal administration's ordinance. That's not all, however, because on Saturday, February 27, a demonstration will be held to defend, precisely, the mural of the baby-robber presented as a victim and an example to follow.
"What was feared has happened, that is, the glorification of a criminal presented as a model of life and victim of society. There will even be a demonstration to defend a work that was never authorized and that exalts delinquency, which is an invitation for the youngest to follow the example of a boy who chose to commit crime and be a robber also because of the family context in which he grew up. This is not the real Naples, this mentality does not represent it, this is why on Saturday 27 February we choose to be on the side of legality and non-violence. At 12,30:13 we will be at the Pellegrini Hospital to lay flowers on the red bench in memory of Irina, a victim of femicide and who died in the hospital while the emergency room was being devastated by Ugo Russo's family and friends. Afterwards, at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., we will go in front of the Caserma Pastrengo, in Piazza Carità, where that night some friends of Ugo Russo fired gunshots, there we will applaud in solidarity with the police. There are two different Naples: on one side those who are in favor of the Murales that idolize criminals and Camorra members, on the other those who are on the side of the victims and the police. Now we must choose which side to be on and we must send strong and clear signals of legality and the works that celebrate and exalt Camorra and crime must be removed, all of them.” - declared the Regional Councilor of Europa Verde Francesco Emilio Borrelli and Eduardo Di Napoli, the young entrepreneur whose bar was set on fire for not having bowed to the racket and who will participate in the two initiatives.
Article published on 24 February 2021 - 19:09
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