The Obama Viggiù: black leather and green heart of Padania. The white Sandy Cane League
Viggiu Sandy Cane. 48 years, Italian American of color. With the African-American father and mother Viggiù. A black and white to put it to Barack Obama. And the impression you get is precisely to be faced the same energy and desire to change the first black president of the United States. This is the identikit of the Northern League candidate for mayor who has chosen to Viggiù. And although there is still no firm official in the country's election campaign has already begun. Born in Springfield (Massachusetts) July 28, 1961, shares with Obama the year of birth and astrological sign, Leo. "Even my friends do comparisons - he smiles - and they call me the female Obama." Because she, like the new occupant of the White House, decided to take the field for his country. Challenging stereotypes and breaking the mold. In applying for Mayor of Viggiù for a list explicitly supported by the Northern League, which he identified as the ideal representative of their local renewal. Descendant of a historic family viggiutese, the Bernasconi, she moved to Valceresio in 1971 when, after the separation was given to his mother Maria Angela, who died two years ago and Viggiù know every alley and every street. "Why are child's play - he says - even combining mischief." She graduated in foreign languages \u200b\u200band literatures gets along well with the dialect Bosin. And now that she is the director of the hotel, and are involved in tourism at a high level is also ready to boost the image of Viggiù. And it chose to run for the Northern League is a militant in very difficult times. "I know that some may surprise you - Sandy Cane clear - but the truth is that I think I've taken the best part of my African-American and Italian. On federalism, which I believe the best way to govern a state, such as immigration that to be healthy should give everybody the chance to work, otherwise gives rise to exploitation and crime. And the expense, in a climate of generalized fear, will be just honest foreigners and immigrants. Who says the league is racist are wrong: it asks only that the rules and integration. " Also very clear ideas about Viggiù. "It's a country I know how my pockets - highlights - and I'm seeing worse day by day. I think young people who have no landmarks or attractions: it is necessary that they return to live this reality. " This is why so many guys in the list ready to make a contribution to their Viggiù. Country to promote and protect. "I think the tourism revived custom - said the mayor of the candidate Carocci - which is designed and programmed. When I worked with the administration to the poster art and history in English we get a good result. Now go further expanded. With attractions for families, and a cultural revival in popularity. Another strong support for the elderly. " For them it has already got a model that comes directly from the States. 'Involvement in public life - points - making them an integral part of the system by opening the doors of volunteering and participation. Output from the garrison from the schools, the synergy with the kids and a whole range of social activities. "
MEDIA FIRE IN THE LAND OF FIRE
League breaks the mold. Candidate for mayor, probably the very first time a national petition, a black woman. Italian American, with African origins, and the League convinced. And according to rumors, rumors, and elections, should not even be the only member of foreign origin included in the lists supported by the Northern League. Items still to be confirmed, in fact, but much credited to tell the presence, as a nominee to a man of Albanian origin in Golant and an Ivorian with Arsago Seprio. The real coup, however, is undoubtedly Sandy Dog, already among its supporters affectionately dubbed the "Obama of the Northern League." Well known in the country, active, well-placed for the Northern League is the ideal candidate for sparigliare cards. Substance, in short, do not do. "It is definitely not a candidate media or daughter of improvisation - clarifies the provincial secretary Stephen Candiani -. Sandy Cane is following us for years and now we are able to deal successfully with both lists, which refer to the center, both those that refer to the center. A Viggiù run against all people with a strong, decisive and effective. " Moreover, the competition fiercer than ever announced by a pool of suitors called to fill the void left by the outgoing mayor Federico Rizzi. A few points of reference, therefore, competition and more open than ever. And the profile "political" dog Sandy, the Italian-African-American viggiutese Carroccio of fully reflects that of the white movement. "In the first place - also clarifies the valceresino coordinator of the Northern League, Andrea Canazza - is a federal conviction. Model of government is well aware that having American roots. Secondly, I think, like us, that immigration should be regulated also based on the actual likelihood of getting a job. " That's the reason for the choice, going into the details viggiutesi, "is based on the awareness of the need to protect territory and local traditions." "That's because - clarifies the candidate - in me I have two souls. The American, the nation with little past and a little history, it makes me appreciate More traditions and culture of the past and Italian Viggiù. Values \u200b\u200bthat I believe should be taken, transmitted to new generations as a useful tool to appreciate their own territory and contribute to its growth. "
stabbed seventeen, pick and ended up buried in the garden. Run from a knife horror
VARESE Finished to pick on head after having been stabbed a dozen times, and buried in the garden under a meter of land. It was a performance of "unprecedented ferocity" that brought to light by the flying squad who arrested two young Varese Varese held responsible for the murder of a boy of Croatian origin. The victim is Dean Catic, not yet seventeen years old, born in Pula, but has lived for years in the district of Varese Bobbie. Wand to kill Andrew and James Merani, 19 and 20 years, finished in handcuffs on charges of aggravated murder and concealment of a corpse. the "brutal murder" occurred, according to the reconstruction of the investigators on the night between Monday and Tuesday. It all starts in the evening when the three met in a bar in Varese. Towards midnight, leaving the local and headed by car towards the district of Varese Bustecche. There is, in Majano, a fairly isolated side, take the trap probably triggered by disagreements related to drug dealing. The victim is hit with a knife wound and taken by car. The seventeen then try to escape and try to get away from the car but the two join him, and rage several times. At least a dozen blows hurled at him. Last back does it fall to the ground unconscious. At that point it is loaded back into the car and brought into the house of James Merani, a villa on two floors Bizzozzero with garden, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Varese. Here the body is discharged near the garage. But it is still alive. Perhaps gasps. Merani then finishes him off with blows of a pickaxe. Then it is put in place trying to hide the corpse wrapped in cellophane and then buried in the garden of the house. Wednesday the turning point. Before the complaint made by the mother of the death of the young Then came an anonymous call to the police station by a cab: "A boy was killed: his name is Dean." One witness, probably, that has led the way Majano, the place where they were inflicted stab wounds to the first Dean, and his attempt to escape. Li's Agents found the hat of the boy and his necklace in the shape of "V". Objects that the same rod and Merani are back to look after the murder. One false move which together with the reconstruction of their movements has them nailed. In the last few hours of confessions in front of the prosecutor Agostino Abate. Tales from which emerged the chilling details. Merani, the only one who has repeatedly attacked Dean Catic finished and acted with premeditation. Before the appointment to the bar, the car ride and finally the hole dug in the garden and planted flowers later, to better hide the body. A plot that looks like a horror game, the same people who had home-Merani and with whom he enjoyed the console. Among these "Vendetta", role play about violence and rivalry between the bands of hip-hop. few connections with the rest of reality to explain the brutality of the crime if not a possible discussion related to the drug. Stuff, however small. Few grams of hashish as those found in the homes of two people arrested. Unemployed young people, already known to the police for minor incidents, the children of good people. Now destroyed by the actions committed by those who believed "good guys".
HORROR meaningless
A kitchen knife with an eight-inch knife and a pickaxe. These are the weapons used to end Dean Catic, 17 December, Varese-born Croatian. Tools of a murderous rampage is still difficult to explain. Before you blow in a car after a dispute related to issues of drugs and drug dealing, then another. At least a dozen. Unleash violence with the victim on the run. Rendered unconscious in the back last. But not yet killed. The death has been imposed on a pickaxe to the head. Near the garage of James Merani, 20, now in prison with Andrea Bacchetta, 19, on charges of aggravated murder and concealment of a corpse. They are the authors of the "brutal murder" committed in the night between Monday and Tuesday and brought to light in recent hours after squad of Varese. They have then wrapped the body of the former friend, who maybe even tied them the drugs, in large plastic sheets and then bury him in the garden. Above, then, Merani has also planted some flowers. Trick by which he thought to hide the body forever. Away from prying eyes in the ground on two floors of the house she shared with her mother to Bizzozzero, suburb of Varese. Isolated house. Detached from others. With neighbors who can not but repeat "That all this horror to us it was sudden and without explanation." Special horror, just as video games seized Merani. Crude images of street riots, gang warfare, reprisals that may have in fact moved to adjust a little score to settle. Nothing, however, that could somehow presage such an "savagery." Execution that was to remain secret to get away. To betray them, however, has thought of playing an anonymous phone call from a public payphone and come directly to the switchboard 113. The story of a probable witness informed the investigators that the crime took place in the district of Varese Bustecche. But that was just the beginning. And while Dean's family tried in vain to call him the boy was finished in the garden of the house via Duno blows of a pickaxe. "We destroyed - said the victim's brother -. On Monday we tried to find him all night. The phone rang empty until midnight then no longer showed signs. " Tile is out with his father saying that he would spend the night at the bar with friends. The same people who then massacred. Children of good people, (the mother of Wand is a municipal employee) seemed like so many boys. Known to law enforcement only for small incidents, have become ruthless killers. "We can not even believe it - explains the neighbors -. We are shocked and speechless. "
Viggiu stabbed to death near the home . So he died, Friday, April 3, Gianpaolo Grilli, 52 years. Fatal stab wounds to the left side of the chest, around 17:30 at the end of yet another fight, he has been inflicted by Claudio cinquant'enne Baldan. A tragedy that has bloodied a court house in Via Della Croce at number 21 in the historic center of Viggiù. Everything, as found by the police in the company of Varese, it was consumed in a few moments. No particular reason, in fact, the stabber has reached the first floor of the his second home where the victim lived. There would come a scuffle after which it would match the fatal stabbing. A sudden spasm, possibly related to disagreements Baldan hatched for years that has probably tried the final match. After the crime has gone up in his car and headed quickly to the nearby police station where he immediately admitted his responsibility. For he is so fired his arrest. Meanwhile, by way of the cross, ate a drama in the drama. With the minor daughter of the murderer who tried in every way to save the life of man seriously injured by his father. She, a Red Cross volunteer, was returning to the company of a nearby when she realized the tragedy. So he immediately tried to stop the injuries inflicted by the very deep stabs while the phone has alerted 118. Then, until the arrival of the ambulance with her neighbor, has followed step by step instructions that reached by rescue teams in an attempt to save the life of Gianni Grilli. But when the doctors were reached his heart had already stopped beating, as was revived on the spot and intubated before transfer to the emergency hospital emergency room where the club Varese but died shortly after admission. Dramatic epilogue of a partnership which has become unsustainable. With the two former inseparable friends, who three years now, without a reason, had become hostile. A grudge, perhaps aggravated by the depression which seems to suffer the stabbing, and that in late yesterday afternoon has exploded in all its violence. Now he will answer charges of murder.
WITNESSES
"When we got in the way of the Cross we heard screams and immediately we saw in court. There we saw Gianpaolo, full of blood, pour on the ground. " So a neighbor, the first to intervene with the daughter of dell'accoltellatore 17 years, recalls the dramatic events that followed the tragic fight between the two former friends who shared the same household. The victim, Gianpaolo Grilli, 52, the second floor, his attacker, 50-Claudio Baldan, ground and first floor. "When we realized what had happened we immediately gave the alarm - he says - I called the police and the daughter of Claudius, who is a Red Cross volunteer ran into the house, took the towels, and in telephone contact with the 118 tried in every way to save the life of the injured man from his father. " Moments excited when the girl has drawn on its expertise to rip death by a neighbor. "He pressed the cloth against injury - remember the woman - and together we tried in every way to stop the bleeding but Gianpaolo was all covered with blood. She seemed conscious, but still did not answer. Then came the doctors in the ambulance, and then his heart stopped beating. They then intubated and revived the race is taken to the hospital. " Where, however, Gianpaolo Grilli surrendered to the wounds that the former friend Claudio suddenly imposed on him. "We do not know what could be the initial cause - tell other neighbors - some years were growing up misunderstandings." Trivial reasons that have worn out, to tear up, once a solid friendship. "They were very attached. Real friends. Inseparable. I remember the dinners together. The desire to see each other forever. A harmony that suddenly broke. And the reason - says the brother-dell'assalitore - I could not even tell. Nonsense then maybe end up being exaggerated. " Certainly this was not for Claudia Baldan an easy time. Waiting to be recognized as having a disability pension for chronic problems in the leg after a fracture and delicate surgery to him incorrectly, so as to give off a dispute with the hospital, apparently suffering from depression. "He was also hospitalized - recalls his brother in law - and I know that taking the pills. " Temporarily unemployed, married to Rita for round child care and a daughter age probably is not even right to stress. Although in the past had not already missed other chances to fight. "Last December, Claudio - tells a different station - Gianpaolo had attacked him with pepper spray. But all was resolved. " Yesterday, however, the consequences were fatal.
A countries upset
is out with his eyes transparencies from his home. He passed the entrance of Via Della Croce, at number 21, and rose on the car. Direct hospital in Varese. This reaction Manuel Grilli, son of man stabbed to death by a neighbor at the news of the dire conditions in which the father admitted to the emergency room at the club. He arrived home from work in Switzerland is rushed to the bedside of the parent. Meanwhile outside the court via Della Croce - already jumped to the honor because of the drama inside another house, 53 year old who also lives on January 20 of 2008 had swept in Baraggia a group of people on the sidewalk on the feast of country killing and injuring a 14 year old 12 others, many of them young - not even an hour from the aggression to which later will be revealed in all its most tragic consequences, people try to understand. To make sense of a tragedy that has forever shattered the lives of two families. And that turned into a victim and victimizer two friends, once inseparable. Gianpaolo Grilli, 50, separated by a daughter who was with his wife, a job as a laborer, lived on the second floor of a housing court with his son Manuel 19, in turn, an employee of a Swiss company. Below, on the ground floor and first resided Claudio Baldan, his wife Rita and daughter Alice. He, a former truck driver for a fruit and vegetable business of Canton of Ticino was currently unemployed. After a series of problems in his leg that would not heal was waiting for the disability pension. His wife at the time, had a steady job and gets by as a babysitter for three children who also were in the house yesterday afternoon. With their daughter, 17 year old, who has tried all out to snatch the man stabbed to death by his father. And the relationship, a normal time with a lot of group dinners that are worn out slowly until it became impossible. Claudio try to push up to the collision solver. As in the late afternoon yesterday. Letting those fatal stab wounds. And leaving a whole country again in search of a reason for the blood to flow back. As the morning of 4 May 2005 , when a few hundred meters, Gaetano Restivo, with a 12 gauge shotgun, killed the brothers Antonio and Gianni than 24 years of 14. Yesterday, it was the turn of the knife in a fight near the end of absurd. Another drama impossible to forget.
CLOSE TO DIE BETWEEN JEALOUSY AND LITIGATION
coexistence become impossible. Which often resulted in insults, teasing, and even some physical contact. This relationship between Claudio Baldan, 52, and Giampaolo Grilli 50. Two neighbors once inseparable but at loggerheads for years. Contrasts in at least two culminated Friday night with stab wounds which killed former Claudio Giampaolo friend. Last act of a relationship frayed for reasons largely Viggiù to whisper in the narrow streets of Old Town and that the police are considering at this time. It would be the jealousy the cause of disagreements erupted the day before yesterday. "Because the entries run - away from the Cross to tell - and this was no longer a secret to anyone." So Viggiù the likely motive has armed the hand dell'assalitore is a sort of secret known to all. Almost a truism that only shame is trying to water down. To a fit of passion. Why country in the explanation that runs from mouth to mouth as a gesture otherwise without explanation is this. "It is no secret that for some time - to clear the square Albinola - suspected a relationship between his wife and his neighbor. It's no secret that the two ever since, because of this, they were in constant conflict. " By Claudia Baldan seems that even he felt persecuted by the presence of Giampaolo Grilli. At the present point in recent years also a lawsuit for insults and threats against the former friend. Act which, it seems, had been followed by an interview with police he had reported on how it was his former friend Grilli had a probable relationship with his wife. Suspicious or something more difficult to say. Although Baldan last December had already tried the battle, armed with stinging pepper spray, grill. Incident but no complaint was resolved through the intervention of children, friends of the same company, who had managed to bring the situation under control. What no one could do on Friday night. "Claudio lost his head - with a neighbor who also said the killer had a common origin Venetian - and because it is easy to understand. He no longer stand the situation. The suspicion that his wife was having an affair with the neighbor. I know him well, I've seen him grow and often spent his evenings with my son which more or less the same age. And these things he said. He said what he suffered for the behavior of his wife and for those suspected of a relationship with his former friend. This is what has put them against each other. Then, probably, the depression that had hit him after the leg injury and a partial recovery, and the recent problems at the wrist, adding to the loss of work have exaggerated his frustration. But Claudio has always been a good man. I do not know what went through my head. Apparently no longer right. " Overwhelmed by the growing depression, despite treatment, the physical problems and the thought of a betrayal of his wife who, rightly or not, until the haunted a psychologically exhausted. Until it burst. Armandogli hand former friend now become an unbearable nightmare.
"a tragedy that forces us to reflect"
"Once again we have to deal with a tragedy." So the mayor of Viggiù, Federico Rizzi, try searching for a meaning in the drama that has involved the country. "Look for a logic I think right now - he explains - it is really difficult. We can only shake and think about the pain that these families are going through. " With Viggiù once again in a few years, you have to face and overcome an act of violence. "Unfortunately - he added - even if episodes like this can happen anywhere we are the ones forced to come to terms with reality. A need to ask again about the meaning of life and because the relationship is incrinino so as to generate violence. " Because while it is undeniable that the relationship between Viggiù such as location, this murder is aged for neighborhood conflicts is quite casual, the other is also true that everything is back this country who feel touched by what happened Friday evening in the old town. "I episodes that happen to you just as close - in fact the first clear public - to force them to throw open their eyes and think about how potentially can happen to anyone without the possibility of prevention. Because no one could even remotely imagine a dramatic epilogue. " A reality that only a few hours dall'accoltellamento mortal remains difficult to ascertain. "I am in touch with the friends of both families - says Rizzi - and in the coming days I will try to meet them to let them hear our neighborhood." Meanwhile, the wooden door of the courtyard on Via Della Croce, yesterday, remained closed throughout the day. With the two families divided by the tragedy that spent the day away from their homes. Closed windows, like those of the neighboring houses with their shutters down even in daylight. Almost as if to repair the tragedy that bloodied the courtyard on Friday. "I tried to talk to them - also said Father Joseph, pastor of Viggiù - a whole day I was unable to contact them. In these cases you only need to reflect and pray for these two families destroyed. " The time will come to understand. "Obviously the malaise of Claudio Baldan - concluded the priest - was far more exhausting than you might think. Perhaps the loss of jobs has affected his reaction on this nonsense. "
"MURDERER TO BLAME THE DEPRESSION"
Viggiù is divided on the intent of the crime. Whether or not a specific plan behind the fatal stabbing claimed the lives of Giampaolo Grilli, 52 years. While for some, in fact, the attack is fatal only daughter of a sudden spasm of violence, aggravated by the depression of which Claudio suffered Baldan, exploded after years of suffering, for others it was only the finale of a tragedy foretold. "If it is true that he felt threatened - explain in many - maybe even if objectively there was no reason for this feeling is it possible that the disease has led to this act deliberately. " Remains the spring of depression that viggiutesi identified as a real manager. "It is a dark evil - tells a neighbor - and I speak advisedly because I too have been receiving treatment for this exactly where you took care of Claudio and can lead to sad thoughts. Ugly and dangerous. Add to this the rumors and jealousy: nobody can really understand what he may be successful in the head. " Because even in the center of Viggiù are different to admit how she felt even persecuted Claudio Baldan by the presence of Giampaolo Grilli. At the present point in recent years also a lawsuit for insults and threats against the former friend. Act which, it seems, had been followed by an interview with police he had reported on how it was his former friend Grilli had a probable relationship with his wife. Suspicious or something, hard to say. And a couple of years, the contacts and conflicts were continuous. "But I can not believe that Claudius, whom I have grown to have planned the attack to kill his neighbor." These are the words of an old way of the Cross. Family friend of Baldan often frequented his home and that of his son. "They more or less the same age - He says - and we would know since my childhood. Then as we are of Venetian origin, and so the friendship was cemented. And even if it seems strange now I can say this because I know that is fifty years. Baldan Claudio is a good person. It was the illness to change it, do it plunged into a nightmare. Often he spoke with us: tell us what he suffered for the behavior of his wife and for those suspected of a relationship with his former friend. But I can not think that it has deliberately decided to kill him. " Words spoken with deep feeling and awareness of a gesture that, planned or unplanned, has ruined two families forever. "There is no justification for this murder - repeats the family friend - but no one ever will convince me that something was premeditated. Claudio lost his head because the jealousy of a real or presumed relationship with the neighbor's wife, health problems, job loss and depression have increasingly squeezed until it exploded. " Investigations will, however, to ascertain the truth. "We - the pastor said Joseph Poratelli during the celebration of the Mass - we can do is pray for these two families destroyed by this episode of blood that hurts our whole community."
