Tomorrow 16 March will be the 54th anniversary of the death of Roma footballer Giuliano Taccola, which took place in the changing rooms of the Amsicora stadium in Cagliari in 1969 , and his widow, Marzia Nanniperi Taccola, announced that she had "informed the case and the situation of the family current premier Giorgia Meloni so that the voice of the victims can be heard at least once, with the hope of receiving an adequate response to this painful and dramatic story".

Giuliano Taccola died at the age of 25, the widow was 23 at the time and was the mother of their two children aged 6 and 4, for decades she has been claiming compensation and an annuity. In a long letter to the press Marzia Nannipieri reconstructs the story , the pressures received not to talk about it with the mass media, the inconsistencies and omissions, the doubts, the documents of the story kept secret for 25 years. He points out that in any case "homicides are not time-barred".

"Giuliano's memory is honored by respecting his family, not destroying it with prejudices, discrimination and humiliation", he writes also recalling "Giuliano's premature, absurd and violent death, not a fatality but caused by untreated bronchopneumonia that had existed for over 15 days and an injection given by the AS Roma team doctor to eliminate non-antibiotic fatigue and fever, as had been specified to my husband." "It is truly scandalous and aberrant that no one to whom I have turned has never verified all of this in 54 years - adds Marzia Nannipieri - All the laws have been violated, the right to health", there have been "failure to help, hindrance to justice, false signatures for filing and misdirections, secrets, lies and silence that have raised an impenetrable rubber wall" .

Taccola's widow claims to have the right to an annuity from Rome as her husband died for work reasons "which never arrived", but "Since 1969, As Roma spa has included it in the balance sheet items, taking advantage of tax benefits for 54 years as it results in Lega Calcio".

However, reporting a conversation with a manager she had in the past, Marzia Nannipieri claims that she was told that "until the court pronounces its decision, I won't give you even a cent". Instead now "for the first time in 54 years I have received New Year's greetings from the current presidents of As Roma accompanied by a box of six chocolates".

"I have never asked for subsidies and almsgiving - she concludes - but only truth, justice and acquired rights as every Italian citizen has the right in a civil and democratic state".

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