On Saturday 9 March at 18:30 pm, at the San Lorenzo Concert Hall, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the murder of Don Peppe Diana, the associations Migr-Azioni ETS, the Presidio Libera Eboli “Aniello Giordano” and the Pro Loco Eboli, are organizing “Voices to not forget. Don Diana, thirty years after the murder”, an event sponsored by the Municipality of Eboli.
Don Peppe Diana was a priest who made his life a banner of freedom against the Camorra, and for this reason on March 19, 1994, at 07:20, on his name day, he was tragically killed, with 5 gunshots, while he was preparing in the sacristy to celebrate mass in the church of San Nicola di Bari in Casal di Principe, by a hitman in the pay of the Casalesi Clan, which controls the entire territory of the province of Caserta with their illicit trafficking. On this occasion, the book “Per rabbia e per amore. Leimpronta dei passi di don Peppe Diana”, written by Raffaele Sardo, published by Guida Editore, will be presented.
The journalist Raffaele Sardo, is one of the founders of the Don Diana Aps Committee, has written for various national newspapers such as l'Unità, Il manifesto, Ilfattoquotidiano.it. He collaborated with the Year Zero program. He currently writes articles in La Repubblica Napoli. He published the books The Beast. Camorra. Stories of crimes, victims and accomplices (Melampo, 2008); Like black clouds. Innocent victims (Melampo, 2013); Don Peppe Diana. A martyr in the land of the Camorra (Di Girolamo, 2015) and Giancarlo Siani, the boy who loved life (Iod, 2018).
The event is part of the “Program for the thirtieth anniversary of Don Peppe Diana” and the “One hundred steps towards March 21”. The meeting will be introduced by Enrico Tortolani, President of the Eboli Cultural Consultation, Mariapia Mercurio and Daniela Cavaliere of the Presidio Libera Eboli “Aniello Giordano”, Raffaele Agresti, of the Migr-Azioni Association, followed by institutional greetings from the Mayor of Eboli, Mario Conte, and the Councilor for Culture, Lucilla Polito, and the author will be interviewed by the journalist Michele Giordano, Rai journalist. The readings of the passages are entrusted to Agnese Attianese, Filomena Sessa and Mariapia Gallotta, of the association “I Cantori di San Lorenzo”.
THE BOOK
March 19, 1994, the day Don Peppino Diana was killed in Casal di Principe, has become a symbolic date. That murder which occurred in a parish, where the sacredness of the place was profaned and where ecclesial authority was also called into question, marked a watershed between before and after. Anyone who thought that Don Peppe's death would stop a story that looked at the rebirth of a land soaked in blood was wrong. The book aims to make a contribution to reconstructing a religious narrative of a priest who consciously chose martyrdom. It will be the dialogue between mother, father and son, which will mark the times of the stories where the memories are told that have marked the history of a resistance against the Camorra which had many protagonists who animate the pages of this book.
Article published on March 8, 2024 - 12pm
