SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE – Three deaths in two weeks, shootings between minors and young people posing with firearms on social networks are raising alarm in the city and revealing dramatic dysfunctions in the system, including, on the front line, the schools.
Par Iñigo Dominguez (The Country)
He shot him because he had soiled 500 euro Versace sneakers. This is how the 17-year-old boy justified himself who, on November 1, took the life of Santo Romano, 19, in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, near Naples. The victim had only come to calm the situation and was not even the author of the stains.
Last Wednesday, when the hearse arrived for the funeral at a church in the Casoria neighborhood on the city's outskirts, classmates and Santo Romano's soccer team crowded around the white coffin. Without really knowing how to carry it, they were paralyzed by this respect inspired by the feeling of touching death so soon, at such a young age. “Dying for sneakers is unacceptable”we repeated in the crowds while the crowd blocked traffic.
Absurd circumstances
The posters and T-shirts of dozens of crying teenagers hugging each other paid tribute to a
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