The words of the father, who acted instinctively: “I saw everyone on my boyfriend. I shouldn’t have done it, but everything must be reconstructed clearly”
A senseless race with the final goal there, in the middle of the field. The hands that rise and the darkness falls: Thomas is brought to the hospital, football loses, the forty -year -old attacker goes around the web inside the video shock.
Watching those images what did he feel?
“A great displeasure, a sense of shame and discomfort. See me again, one, two, three times, made me understand how much fear and instinct they prevailed on reason”.
“Yes. I acted to defend my son on the ground, but it is not the example that I wanted to give him.”
Yes, his son. Did you talk to yourself?
“He told me that I shouldn’t have react to react, even in a situation, for him, of great fear for what he was suffering.”
Fear and instinct. And then?
“Violence must always be condemned. Always, wherever you arrive: when you are a parent, unfortunately, in certain situations, lucidity is lost seeing one’s child in danger”.
“You can’t. I could go back …”.
No jump of the fences, no run, nothing of nothing.
“I wouldn’t act in that way. I would have waited for the people present on the field to intervene: they would certainly have put an end to that violent quarrel between boys once the game is over”.
Would you meet Thomas’ family?
Fear and instinct, right?
“I think that talking to us between parents could serve to lower the tones and, above all, to give a different message to our children”.
And will the children ever find a meeting point between them?
“It would be important they could clarify: they are two young people who love the sport they make, football”.
A strong message to the address of those who live the ball in the wrong way.
“Together they can understand that sometimes you win, sometimes you get lost, but that it only matters the possibility of having fun”.
She passes through the attacker of Collegno, of a Sunday in late August when two teams under 14 were facing each other to play a challenge of a historic tournament for Piedmont.
“I saw my son on the ground, struck by multiple opponents: I had the perception of a violent action against him, not of a simple sporting dispute. From here, as mentioned before, fear and instinct made me do what I would not redo”.
His son on the ground, the other players all against everyone.
“The truth lies in the images that, now, many have been able to see and review: I think it is clear that my boyfriend has been attacked and that I reacted badly, going further”.
How will this sad story end?
“I think it is right that every moment is reconstructed with balance, without hiding anything”.
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