The pain of Nuoro: emotional crowd at the torchlight procession for Patrick and Ythan

Children, teenagers, friends, adults, mothers and fathers, religious men and women. A crowd gathered in via Dessanay, in Nuoro, for the torchlight procession in memory of Patrick Zola and Ythan Romano, the two boys aged 15 and 14 who died on Easter Monday evening while playing in a ruined farmhouse in this peripheral area of the capital of Barbagia.

An entire community, the one from Nuoro, but also those of Oliena and Desulo, where the two victims had family ties, and from other centers in the area. Thousands responded to the prayer call launched by the parish of San Domenico Savio and its pastor, Don Stefano Paba: «We are here in this place where the night came suddenly», said the priest, «and left us alone so much pain".

“We remember them like this,” a nun said into the microphone, her voice broken by tears, “because life is always stronger than death. Of them", of Patrickl and Ythan, "we will always have the desire for life".

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

Video by Gianfranco Locci