Dismay spreads everywhere, in offices and schools, in bars and streets. Nuoro is silent with pain. People of all ages have only one painful question: "How is it possible?"
It remains there, under a sun that has a freezing effect because in the face of a death bulletin it no longer clarifies anything. The pain goes deep because a massacre like this has never been seen . Moreover without an apparent explanation, in any case never sufficient to decipher the atrocity of so much blood. The prefect, Alessandra Nigro, immediately called a meeting of the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security with the heads of the Carabinieri and the police involved in the investigation.
"We need to reflect in the face of such a great tragedy," commented Giovanni Pirisi, extraordinary commissioner of the Municipality of Nuoro. Faced with a massacre of incredible proportions, he ordered the cancellation of all events scheduled for these days, from the Cortes to Lollove to those related to the Researchers' Night. The city stops, paralyzed by an unprecedented mourning.
Just six months ago, the tears for Patrick Zola and Ythan Romano, the boys sucked into the collapse of an old farmhouse while playing on Easter Monday evening. This time, bad luck has nothing to do with the murderous hands of a father with a gun who signs an extermination.
CITIZEN MOURNING – The day of the funeral, as Pirisi announces, will be a day of mourning for the whole city. But in fact it has been since yesterday. The atmosphere is sad everywhere. The thoughts are fixed on that terrible sequence that led to the death, at the hands of Roberto Gleboni, of his wife Giusi , of his daughter Martina , and then of his son Francesco and of his neighbor Paolo Sanna , to the wounding of the man's other son, aged 14, and of his elderly mother , all before the worker decided to take his own life .
Relatives and friends in tears remember Martina as she walks in the gardens of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, together with her boyfriend whom she met in the Palace of Justice in Nuoro where, until May, she was engaged in a training internship in the chancellery office. The last walk together with Francesco was on Tuesday evening, when nothing foreshadowed such a great and absurd tragedy. After graduating and the internship, Martina arrived in August at the Guiso Gallisai nursery, a position within the civil service, where yesterday they waited for her in vain. "A very intelligent girl. We are tired, marked, incredulous ", says Salvatore Zizi, president of the Foundation.
BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS – Maria Giuseppina Massetti, 43, a housewife, had married Roberto Gleboni at a very young age, after inheriting a house in the centre of Nuoro where she had lived for some time with her husband and Martina. Then something changed. Perhaps the relationship between Gleboni and her family had deteriorated and the decision had come to sell the house on Corso Garibaldi and move to Via Ichnusa , in a rented apartment. The family had grown with the other two children, aged 14 and 10.
And yesterday morning she was ready to think about the children's breakfast and getting them ready for school, when her husband shot her dead. "Giusi was very sweet," her mother-in-law's neighbors, in via Gonario Pinna, remember her. Her father couldn't stand the sight of so much blood: he ended up in hospital due to illness.
PRAYER – All activities in the city have been cancelled, including political ones. The parish of San Domenico Savio, the same one that mourned Patrick and Ythan in April, has organised a prayer meeting for today. In this church, Francesco made his first communion in May and spent a day of great joy with his parents, his sister and his brother, the only one who escaped his father's homicidal madness. The parish priest Don Roberto Dessolis and the groups of children and young people from the catechism will meet at 6:30 pm.