The Banana Republic

The pain and anger. The tears of those who lost everything, house and children under the mud. And the anger of those who know that the tragedy could be avoided. Whose + tired of the usual promises that are never kept, who has read the Journal of South Bridge will close on the great works are not touching. Strong feeling that explode on Piazza del Duomo. The 21 coffins covered by the flag no longer the head of government comes from the main entrance of the main church of Messina, where they are crowded from morning thousands of people, for the state funeral.

Start whistles, shouts, slogans and Berlusconi head down escorted reaches the machine. At Messina the dead were counted and the living is only the anguish of the grief and uncertainty of the future .. In the Cathedral 21 coffins lined up, a mother who collapses on those of his two sons. They were found embraced under the rubble.

Henry Fierro
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