Church filled with Somma Vesuviana, the last farewell to Mario Cerciello Rega

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A long, thunderous and moving applause welcomed to Somma Vesuviana the arrival of the body of deputy brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, killed in Rome on the night between 25 and 26 July. Waiting for the coffin, wrapped in the Tricolor, hundreds of people who, in a silence broken only by the ringing of the bells, followed the guard of honor that anticipated the entrance of the coffin into the Franciscan church of Santa Croce di Santa Maria del Corso.

The same passage from the Gospel read on the wedding day
Rosa Maria, Mario's widow, wanted the same passage from the Gospel of their marriage to be read, which occurred in the same church at Somma Vesuviana a month and a half ago. It is the passage of the Gospel of Matthew in which Jesus defines his disciples as the salt of the earth and the light of the world. "Today we would not have wanted to be in this Church in which some of you, a few weeks ago, were reunited by Mario and Maria Rosaria to celebrate the great mystery of love in joy", says Santo Marcianò, ordinary military archbishop for the Italy - A mystery that still touches us in a moving way through the Gospel that you, Maria Rosaria, wanted to read again today, because you had touched the strings of your heart on your wedding day, it was the feast of St. Anthony and Mario "We know he had chosen that date to feel his father Antonio from heaven even closer. Today, Mario calls us again, this time from the sky, and we, who still find it hard to believe it, are united by a sudden, heartbreaking pain that we feel unfair ".

The bishop: politicians learn the meaning of the state from Mario
"It is not our task to say whether we need stricter laws or just more just laws, but one thing we dare to ask you:" Put your heart into it! "So Archbishop Marcianò, during the homily." You too - he underlined, addressing the representatives of the institutions- of the life of others the meaning of your life, aware that what you operate or do not operate is aimed at concrete men: citizens and foreigners, men and women of the Armed Forces and law enforcement, to whom we can not renew the grace and encouragement of the Church and of the people! And if you, responsible for public affairs, and we all know better, from men like Mario, the sense of the State and the common good, Italy will rise again ".

At the funeral four ministers and the president of the Chamber
The Deputy Prime Ministers Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini, the Ministers Elisabetta Trenta (Defense) and Sergio Costa (Environment), the Speaker of the Chamber Roberto Fico, the Senate Vice-President Ignazio La Russa representing President Alberti Casellati: they are the representatives of the national institutions present at the funeral. With them the mayor of Rome, where Rega served, Virginia Raggi, and of Somma Vesuviana, birthplace of Rega, Salvatore Di Sarno. The representation of the weapon was very strong, with the commander general Giovanni Nistri.

Nistri: we ask for respect and gratitude, polemics are not the twelfth stab wound
"If it is granted to the general commander at this time to make requests, I would like them to turn into two words: respect and gratitude. Mario's heart was pierced by eleven stab wounds, it is good that we all avoid the twelfth stab, we need respect. The debates are right, they are legitimate, but let's keep them away, not today. And the tones are not the twelfth stab, "said the commander general of the carabinieri Giovanni Nistri, who spoke at the end of the funeral.

Outside the church, the crowns of flowers of the President of the Republic, the Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber, the Minister of Defense, the General Command of the Carabinieri and the Roma Centro Company, to which the military belonged.

Also present are the members of the Knights of Malta association of which Cerciello Rega was a member to carry out voluntary activities.

Traders have displayed dozens of Italian flags to pay tribute to their fellow citizen. The mayor of the town ordered the city's mourning. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also participated in the funeral chamber in Rome yesterday. "Mario's broken life - he said - is a deep wound for all of us".

Yesterday the burial chamber in Rome
Many, many people, friends, colleagues and citizens to pay their last respects to the soldier killed. Rosa Maria watches, standing, the coffin wrapped in a tricolor flag, four policemen in full uniform form a picket. Next to his wife, Mario's family members sit in a semicircle around the coffin.

The burial chamber remained open until 9 pm, half an hour more than expected, due to the large influx. Then the transfer of the coffin to Somma Vesuviana, in the Neapolitan area

The tribute of Conte
"This is the moment of commotion and of being close to the family. For other more complex statements I reserve the right to do them later": the President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, told Rainews24 at the end of his visit to the funeral home . And then: "In Rome to honor the memory of Mario Cerciello Rega, the vice-sergeant who was brutally killed while performing his duty. A generous man, a caring husband, an honest carabiniere. Mario's broken life is a deep wound for all of us ", he writes on Facebook. "'He dies young to the gods is dear', recite the verses of Menander, but they are not worth to console us. My thought moved to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues of the Arma".

Killed with 11 stab wounds
Meanwhile, the details of the autopsy emerge. It was eleven, and not as it seemed, in total, the stab wounds made by Elder Finnegan Lee to the vice brigadier. According to the autopsy, Cerciello Rega died due to severe bleeding.

The pusher who sold aspirin to the two Californians for aspirin was also identified by the police. It would be an Italian. Investigations are also under way regarding the position of Sergio B., the robbed man who gave the alarm to the 112 that evening. They will be investigated for drug crimes. To what reconstructed, the man personally accompanied the boys from the pusher.

The blindfolded boy
Meanwhile, the photo of one of the two Americans, Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, blindfolded, opens the CNN website, which speaks of "a shocking image" and refers to the start of the shooting investigation. The photo also bounces on other American media, from the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times which, quoting the Italian authorities, speak of "illegal act".