` – Neither those who shot, nor those who demonstrated against the G8 with a fire extinguisher in hand six meters from him, have never been in prison- Neither Mario Placanica, auxiliary carabiniere acquitted of murder, nor Carlo Giuliani, a boy who remained a boy because he died on 20 July 2001- But one of the two says he ended up in the same- In a prison more lonely and darker-
“I live thrown away like an abandoned thing”
“I am dead since that day like Giuliani- I am a 40 year old man who lives thrown away like an abandoned thing- Without friends, I look for them on Facebook but I can’t find their names anymore- Jobless- Without outlets “-
Reached on the phone by the ` in his home in Catanzaro, Placanica apologizes for the hoarse voice, which, when he talks about his current condition, turns into tears: “I smoked all night because I couldn’t sleep- These are even more difficult days ”-
The story of a motionless and ‘silent’ life shrinks compared to the sirens of Piazza Alimonda, the blows that explode, the images that terrified the world, a prelude to the sound of batons on the bones of the night at Diaz- The former carabiniere, then employed in the land registry for a few years, is in a wheelchair, after a car accident-
“The only distraction I have is watching my uncle that water the plants at 4:30 in the morning- What do I have to do? I have not worked
