by Adriano Sansa
We have lost the sense of the tragic, of the invincibility of certain dilemmas, of the irrevocability of choices. We commonly say, and perhaps still believe, that the person and life are the pre-eminent values. But when faced with different events we formulate other truths, we give precedence to other goods. In recent years, security seems to prevail, which is threatened in many ways, although no more numerous and serious than in other eras.
The jeweler Mario Roggero was robbedtherefore a theft of valuable objects carried out with violence and threats. He suffered a suffering of fear, confusion and anger.
It was a horrible experience, one that anyone would have had. Seeing the robbers fleeing with the stolen goods, he chased them and shot when there was no longer any serious danger to himself and his loved ones. He didn’t aim at the car or the tires but, beside himself, he hit a body, then another, then kicked a dying man again.
On the one hand the suffering threat and the possible loss of the jewels, on the other the loss of life: to him, the victim of the robbery, it seemed he could give precedence to his own evil. The others died due to the unfortunate decision to rob.
We, who understand and pity the fate of Roggero, but even more so that of those killed, have to choose, as we have collectively done by giving pre-eminence to the value of life.
We contemplate a tragedy from which it is not humanly permissible to emerge unscathed, nor certainly denying the courts which attest to its inexorable necessity.
