White balloons and a lot of emotion at the funeral of little Samuele, the 4-year-old boy dropped on the third floor of his home in via Foria, in Naples, by Mariano Cannio, the servant who was cleaning the house.
"Whoever loses his parents is an orphan, whoever is a spouse is a widower but there is no word to define a parent who loses a child", said the archbishop of Naples, Don Mimmo Battaglia, in the homily delivered in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli alle Croci, in via Veterinaria. Then with his voice broken by tears he read a "letter to Samuel", defined several times as "dear sweet, little prince": "Help us to come out of this pain so great, so unknown that it can be frightening", he continued. "We now need you, little prince and I am sure that from where you are now you will continue to look at us, to smile at us, to love us. Now you will have to show us how to laugh at this world while we are still trying to answer many questions. , in this life that seems too gray and too dark without you. "
For the bishop of Naples, now we need to have the strength to "live this pain without being overwhelmed by it, not to get lost, not to get lost, to continue resisting, standing up, and moving forward under this cross that seems too heavy to us. . And you teach us, Samuele, that only love remains ".
INVESTIGATIONS - In the meantime, investigations continue to clarify the dynamics of the tragedy while Cannio, who claims to have mental problems, is still in prison on charges of aggravated voluntary homicide.
Relations between him and Samuele's family, said Domenico De Rosa, the latter's lawyer, have always been "extremely normal". "I understand that Mariano Cannio - said the lawyer De Rosa - had been cleaning the Gargiulo house and other people's homes for years, including relatives of Samuele's family. Moreover, Samuele's mother, 8 months pregnant. , he needed a hand ".
