374. Violence: The Victims
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| Carabiniere Giuseppe Giangrande |
Violence
has never paid off yet it continues to hit when you least expect it and from
whom you least expect it. There seems to be a wave of sudden violence against
women in Italy, recently it has been three in three days, killed by those men
who claim to love them. Domestic violence, although not to be underrated, seems
nothing compared to the 70 thousand victims of the massacre by Syrian
Authorities- unacceptable, atrocious and unexplainable especially when it comes
to tying the hands, gagging and shooting in the face students, male and female,
from the near-by university of Aleppo and thrown into the canal.
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| Mainly students of Aleppo University victims of Syrian massacres |
Then
there is another form of violence, that which is instigated by individuals, or groups
of individuals against institutions or representatives thereof. An episode of
this kind of violence was seen last Sunday, 28th April, when a
gunman from a few feet’s distance opened fire on a Carabiniere so as to divert
attention from the new government being sworn-in a few yards away, at the
President’s Residence, the Quirinale.
One
Carabiniere was hit in the legs but the one who got the worst of it as the
gunman aimed to kill and hit him in the neck avoiding the bullet-proof jacket
that covered the torso was Giuseppe Giangrande. That Sunday Giuseppe Giangrande
posted on his facebook page “Buona domenica a tutti. Oggi grande giornata di
sole”. “Happy Sunday everyone. Today great sun-shining day.” Giuseppe Giangrande was unaware that his
enthusiasm for a sunny day after many of rain was to be the day that would
transform itself in tragedy, the day that would decide if he would be able to
walk ever again.
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| The Carabiniere's Daughter, Martina |
As
fate would have it, his daughter tells the media, the Giangrande family was
reduced to herself and her father having lost her mother through illness barely
two months previously. Without thinking twice, his daughter resigned her job
saying her first priority was now her father and she would take care of him.
As
in my last post, again I repeat the issue- “Was all this heartache really
necessary? For what?” Violence does not ever pay off… therefore those who
instigate it, and these “moralists” know who they are, should remember that the
instigation to violence is also a crime punishable by law- and a few years in
the cooler may help them remind them of that.
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