Grief mingles with anger outside the New Palace of Justice in Naples, where the father of Samuel, the 18-year-old boy killed in the explosion at the firecracker factory, has turned his protest into a public appeal. Kadri Tafciu rejects the sentence handed down to the defendants for a tragedy that took the lives of three young people, Samuel and the twins Sara and Aurora, and which continues to weigh on their families like an open wound.
"Don't work illegally, don't risk your life," he said in a broken voice, addressing the children in particular. These words were born from a realization that came too late: Samuel had accepted the job just a few days earlier, for 50 euros a day, a choice he made to support his six-month-old daughter. "I only found out after the tragedy," the father says. "If I had known before, I would never have allowed him to do it."
Outside the courthouse, the family displayed banners that told their truth more clearly than any sentence: three young men locked in a powder keg, with no way out, no chance of saving themselves. A death that, according to Kadri, is aggravated by a sentence he deems too lenient. "After ten years, they will be released," he added, "but my son remains in the ground. This is not justice."
The protest won't stop here, promises Samuel's father, determined to see it through to the end to obtain what he sees as recognition of the gravity of what happened. His battle, however, goes beyond the trial: it's a warning against undeclared work, against the precariousness that forces young people to accept any risk. A cry demanding that we be heard, so that no other parent should have to mourn a child who died while working.
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The pain of Samuel's family cannot be ignored. It's sad to know that young people have to work in these conditions for a few euros. Justice should be more severe with those responsible for these tragedies.