Home > KILLED ITALIAN: UNCLE’S HOUSE IS FRIENDS’ MEETING POINT
(AGI) - Caulonia (Reggio Calabria), 12 Aug - The home of Nicola Frammartino, the former mayor of Caulonia and a paternal uncle of Angelo, the twenty-four year old law graduate killed in Jerusalem where he had gone to work as a volunteer to help needy Palestinian children, has become the established meeting place for friends and acquaintances who want to express their condolences.
Angelo’s parents had left Caulonia in the 70s; Lillo and Silvana, the young victim’s parents, an accountant and infant school teacher respectively, had settled in Monterotondo. In the Frammartino household currently bears its suffering with immense dignity but no one has managed to provide an explanation as to how it was possible that young volunteers were sent on a mission in a country where there is fighting without taking any sort of precaution, without any concerns,.
"They had assured us that it was a peaceful area or, in any event, that there were no risks" said one of Angelo’s relations. The young man killed in Jerusalem is remembered as an extremely generous person, incapable of bearing a grudge. "He saw only the positive aspects of life - said one of his friends - his mote was ’let’s make love with non violence’".
Angelo loved returning to Caulonia at least three of four times a year: in the summer for around three months and then again at Christmas and Easter. His closest friends, ones he’d known since he was four years old, are here. "This August holiday without him is difficult - one of his closest friends, Alfredo, said - we’d been expecting him this year too; we’d arranged to meet in Caulonia when he came back from Palestine. I’ve often asked myself if I too didn’t feel this need to help these needy, the less able, those less fortunate than ourselves. He was a positive generous and radiant person".
Teresa, another of Angelo’s close friends, could not hold back her tears: "I’ll miss everything about him, his phone messages that were always different every time. Angelo was made that way, he wanted to give of himself to others, and his life came second". At uncle Nicola’s house in Caulonia, relations and close friends are looking again at photos, many many photos, taken in happy times, on holiday and at parties. Angelo has left an indelible mark on everyone because, as they say, "for him it was normal to be generous, to make sacrifices for others. His selfless concern for others was contagious". (AGI)