The green disc arrived yesterday, during the meeting of the Provincial Committee for public order and safety in the prefecture of La Spezia: yes to portable metal detectors in schools to avoid the introduction of bladed weapons. The devices will be positioned in the institutions and used by law enforcement personnel at the request of the school director. At the same time, during the meeting it was also established that the prevention measures will also concern the external part, where accurate control activities will be carried out, always in coordination with the police forces.
One day earlier than the circular signed today by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara, La Spezia said yes to the tightening of anti-knife controls and it is no coincidence: precisely in the city of the Eastern Ligurian region, last January 16th Abanoub Youssefknown to all as “Aba”, a student at the Einaudi-Chiodo professional institute, was killed with a single blow by his classmate Zouahir Atif while he was at school. A shock for the city and the entire country, an unprecedented episode in this way, which gave rise to peaceful demonstrations and protests, up to the record participation in the young man’s funeral in the Cathedral of Christ the King.
Thus, La Spezia becomes the “zero case” of the experimentation at the request of the Einaudi-Chiodo manager Gessica Caniparoli. When asked by us about it, she chose to maintain the line of silence that she has followed since the tragedy, developed in classrooms and corridors where young people from La Spezia, immigrants and second generations build a future by learning a trade. At the moment, in addition to the certainty that the testing of mobile metal detectors – therefore excluding the idea of placing fixed ones in some institutions, starting from those considered most problematic – it will be done and that the devices will still be managed and used by law enforcement personnel, as reiterated by the ministerial circular, not much is known. Some experts have defined it as an “interlocutory and preliminary phase”.those present at the summit in the prefecturewaiting to define the terms of the experimentation and the forces available for these extraordinary checks.
“We are working, even if we have chosen to speak as little as possible.” The director of the provincial school office Giulia Crocco agrees to comment on the news that arrived immediately after the tragedy, so that similar episodes never happen again. «We prefer not to make known what we are doing, but we assure that the commitment is continuous and the result of coordination between different interlocutors. We want to be the first to look for effective solutions.” In the meantime, after they skipped class in the days following the murder, at Einaudi – Chiodo the students returned to classin search of a normality that is difficult but essential to rediscover. To move forward with “Aba” in your heart, to conquer your future.
