Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Furgeri Gilbert).
Legg on the Ansa, signed by Patrizia Antonini: «At least they are 41 women died and numerous those injured in the Women’s Center for Social Readaptation (Cefas)a prison 25 kilometers north of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, at the end of a probable clash between rival gangs. According to various reconstructions, the drama exploded when some inmates locked women from the opposing gang in the cells, setting them on fire. Probably a retaliation after previous violence between the components of the “Pandilla barrio 18” and those of the “Mara Salvatrucha”, who have always fought each other for control of the territory and the racket”.
Our prejudice reserves absolute evil, or at least the banality of evil, for men. That some women can burn other women alive is something monstrous, almost impossible for our sensibilities.
And instead we have to accept that women are also capable of profoundly wicked actions, even if they are almost silent.
Again from Ansa: «The neighbors of the prison have heard cries of despair, calls for help and sequences of shooting, while columns of smoke rose from the prison. The images of the horror circulating on social networks and on some online groups show corpses piled up, others charred, and some with gunshot wounds scattered in different areas of the penitentiary”.
It is difficult to accept that a woman, in addition to giving life, is capable of giving death. And yet as kids we shivered reading stories like those of Correggio’s saponifier (Ligabue also mentions her in his beautiful autobiography). After all, over two thousand years ago Terence had already understood everything: «I am a human being. Nothing that is human I consider foreign to me.
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