With a long message posted on his page in Facebook the minister of Agriculture, Teresa Bellanova has apologized for what it calls “error”. “It is true – says the minister – in the maelstrom of emotion in that evening, because of the maelstrom it is necessary to speak when the mother-to-mother you are going to have to discuss the death of a child, the picture that you see in the picture is left for error on the stage. And this I regret”.
a Lack of attention or the right amount of importance directed at a gift that is symbolic and full of meaning. This had struck when, two days after the debate that he had a view of the protagonist at the feast of the Fiom, together with other speakers, among whom the national secretary of the workers affiliated to the Cgil, Francesca Re David, some of the volunteers had found next to the stage, the picture that Carla Lucarelli and Stefania Petaro had given on the 28th of September. The two mothers of Taranto, the first with the breast still in mourning for the death of George Pontius, son, 15-year-old killed by a sarcoma last January, had delivered the figure of a skull made with the powder of the ore coming from the steel mill ex-Ilva gathered on the balconies of the houses of the ward, Drums.
there have written, “Mothers no dioxine”. Black-and-white. Because that powder is black. And climbing up to the stage of the social cooperative ” Robert Owen San Giorgio Ionico, the venue of the conference, had explained the why of their gift. Bellanova had listened to their words, even harsh, that pointed the finger at the many decrees in the “Hall Ilva” voted in Parliament in these years, even from her. And he replied, resolutely, accepting those words of pain but, claiming that he always acted in the belief of acting in the right. But then, that picture has left it there. The forgotten (not thrown, as some blogs incorrectly states). He brought with him, as he would have had to do for grace and attention, and much less the claimed then, as they told us during the episode of the TgZero of Capital Radio, November 12, Edoardo Buffoni and Michela Murgia. “Not to hang it in the kitchen, but to take it with him, make him see, perhaps other ministers. And instead abandoned him”.
After being excused, the minister has also added to be “ready to return to Taranto to listen to the reasons of those who there lives, as I did that night and many other times in recent years”. To replicate them are the same as those mothers. “We thank the minister for inviting us to a new comparison – explain through a post on Facebook – but we decline the invitation, and was received extremely out of time: she who has worked on the case of Ilva, helping to safeguard only the continuity of production”.
A message accompanied by a photograph on Thursday, November 14: three of them with that picture in the office of the association Giorgio forever, dedicated to the son of Carla. A gift returned to the sender for whom: “We have other projects, certainly more functional to our cause.” © Reproduction reserved
