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It is November 23, 1980. At 7:34 p.m., with its epicenter in Avellino, the earth trembles. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake. Devastating. Irpinia It becomes post-bomb terrain. Two thousand nine hundred dead. Almost nine thousand injured. Three hundred thousand people were left homeless under which to take refuge. The image of the Main Church of Balvano, in the province of Potenza, whose roof collapsed, burying sixty-six people is impressive. The majority are boys and girls who were preparing to receive the sacraments of confirmation and communion. That snapshot will go around the world, becoming the symbol of a tragedy that seems to never end.
Sandro Pertini was the President of the Republic. His pain turned to anger when he realized the inadmissible slowness of the relief work and thundered against those who should have taken care of that shattered part of Italy. The commitments and promises were solemnly signed by the responsible authorities, deceiving the victims of that tragedy that in a short or reasonable time their life could resume as it had before the earthquake. Voices blown by the wind that blew over the hundreds of tent cities installed throughout the territory struck by the underground fury of the earth.
An earthquake that lasted forty years because even today the effects and traumas suffered by people can be seen They continue to gnaw deep into the soul and the innermost parts of the brain. Stefano tacconi, the former Juventus and national team goalkeeper who was playing at Avellino at that time, lived with his wife hours of terror that did not stop stirring night ghosts in him.
A very hard lesson that should have represented a treasure for memory and for the duty to prevent instead of trying to heal after the tragedy. But memory seems to be the Achilles heel of our country, always ready to raise its voice in hot moments and then forget everything or almost everything after a short time. April 6, 2009 this time at three thirty in the morning the earth trembles again. The epicenter of the 5.8 magnitude earthquake is the city of L’Aquila. The victims are “only” three hundred nine thousand six hundred injured, the damage estimated at ten billion euros.
Twenty-nine years after the tragedy of Irpinia, a film is shown already seen with the sound made up of the same guarantees and promises. Today L’Aquila, like so many children in its province, is still a ghost town. Each of us should ask a few questions.
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