Murder Fermo. “I want to meet quell’asassino. I know that you Italians are not like him” – The Republic

STOP – A white handkerchief tight on the head. Bare feet. A red pants that struggles to keep, such as the eyes, like legs that wobble with each word. It lies on the floor and crying. The floor itself where he spent the night in the hope that Emmanuel, sooner or later, come back. There should be no great pain like that of Chinyery. Also knows Filomena, indeed Sister Filomena, 29, beautiful, while the caresses. Squeezes, passing a hand over his forehead as happened Wednesday night when everyone was crying and Chinyery said: “Get in the circle” and then she started to sing, indeed it was not a hand, “he looked like something that came from the sky”, something that started from somewhere and came anywhere. A voice that rose and said: “God why?”.

Chinyery, why?

“I do not know. I want to go to jail. Let me go to jail. I want to look that man in the face, in the eyes and ask him why? Why did you do this to me? “.

you knew Mancini?

“Never seen in the eight months since we arrived in Fermo. We went out to buy a cream for the body. We were walking, when suddenly those gentlemen began to insult me. “Africans monkey”, “africans monkey”. Took me, pushed me, he gave me a kick. Emmanuel has defended me. The traffic signal has taken the Italian man, however, then hit him. Emmanuel and fell to the ground. “

Why were you in Italy?

“We lived in Nigeria. I was a student in second year of medicine, Emmanuel worked. We had a two year old and a half. We should get married, were less than a month. Then a Boko Haram bomb destroyed everything. They wanted to hit a church. They also destroyed our home: our baby died. They died Emmanuel parents. we did not nothing yet we had everything. At that moment we lost everything. We fled immediately. Italy was a dream, we wanted to find everything we had lost. “

How was the trip?

“A nightmare. Four months passing from Niger and arriving in Libya. Then something beautiful happened. “

What?

” We are expecting a baby, our baby. We were left alone, without any help. And we again found everything: all that effort, all that horror had a justification. We were doing it for our children and for all others who would come. We did not know that instead we were only just beginning. “

Are you left?
“We arrived in Libya. One night they entered into the house of men and they put everything upside down. They stole and were savagely beaten. I screamed I was expecting a child but they did not care. They continued to strike. They’re gone. And I began to lose blood. “

You left the same?

“Yes. And those losses have never stops. At sea it lasted four days. We arrived in Sicily and then in Fermo. “

Speaker Filomena, that caresses. She was the first to accept it along with the Little Jesus Caritas sisters, the ‘order that here in Fermo built this miracle: give a home, which means the construction of a future, to these 120 children who run away in horror: “he was bleeding even when she got there. I brought her to the hospital. “The child was gone.

” It is difficult to trust someone to like me. Then I met Don Vinicio and nuns. Are our Saints. “

Did you have a dream?

” We wanted to get married. We have repeated endlessly. But we did not have the documents. So Don Vinicio just fulfilled our biggest wish. “

On the phone has all the articles that spoke of their history:” The fairytale Chinyery and Emmanuel , escaped from Boko Haran find love in Italy. “the Chinyery love, love.

” But yesterday … the pain, yet the pain. Now I want to bring Emmanuel in Nigeria, must sleep there (Chinyery asked to wash the whole body of Emmanuel and then drink the water). “

And you?

“But I want to go back to Italy to do what we had decided together: I know that the Italians are not so, this is the our house, but I hope that these people have some sort of punishment for what they did. It can not remain unpunished. You can not. “

Here comes Don Vinicio:” The University of Ancona has offered a scholarship to continue his studies in Medicine. “

“But I need Emmanuel. Where is Emmanuel? We were not husband and wife. But much more: there is something that can not be separated? “He asks. He cries. He staggers. A arm accompany to his room. He gets that voice. Chinyery has started singing again.