Everybody has White shirts some even tears in the eyes More than two thousand gathered last night in Casal Palocco for the torchlight vigil in memory of little Manuel, five years old, assassinated last June 14 from one jeeps led by the youtuber Matteo Di Pietro, who will appear today before the investigating judge for the hearing to validate the arrest for vehicular manslaughter. “Hate has not entered my heart”, is the message sent by the mother of the missing child to the crowd gathered in the courtyard of the Saint Timothy Parishspeaking through Don Giovanni Cristofarowho from the stage remembers that “death did not win. I have had the grace, the honor and the privilege of being able to accompany Elena these days and what I have seen is that thedespair did not overwhelm herBecause opened to the love of God».
Those evening prayers: “Love overcomes pain”
Next, the parish priest invited those present, in a climate of great emotion, “to do what she did every afternoon with Manuel, two simple sentences. The only thing I wanted to tell you from the bottom of my heart is that you make this love yours and that you do acts of love, the only thing that can cure the pain. White balloons and a long applause, along with the cry of “Long live Manuel!” accompanied the tribute to the child, with the presence of hundreds of boys and girls from the neighborhood schools.
They present the mayor, Gasparri, Falconi and Don Coluccia
To open the torchlight procession the banner “United for Manuel” while a little further back there was also the of the parents of the students of the institute the child attended. By initiative, organized by Casal Palocco Consortium, who provided the investigators with the images of the accident taken by the neighborhood cameras, the mayor of Rome also intervened Roberto Gualtieri, the vice president of the senate Mauricio Gasparhe, the president of the X Municipality Mario Falconi and the anti-drug parish priest of San BasilioDon Antonio Coluccia, followed by the escort.
“A tragedy also for the boys involved”
“I pray that the sacrifice of this child converts the boy who did all this,” said the priest on the front line against drug trafficking and threatened several times. It is a tragedy for his family, but also for the families of all the boys involved.». At the end of the procession, the mayor deposited a bouquet of flowers at the scene of the accident, which has become an altar in memory of the child. Soon it will be a green area that will bear the name of Manuel.
