Il sindaco pescatore

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TUTTI I FIGLI DI ADAMO FORMANO UN SOLO CORPO, SONO DELLA STESSA ESSENZA. QUANDO IL TEMPO AFFLIGGE CON IL DOLORE UNA PARTE DEL CORPO (ANCHE) LE ALTRE PARTI SOFFRONO. SE TU NON SENTI LA PENA DEGLI ALTRI, NON MERITI DI ESSERE CHIAMATO UOMO. SA'DI DI SHIRAZ (1210 - 1291)On 5 September 2010, seven gunshots put an end to the life of Angelo Vassallo, the fisherman mayor. About twelve years earlier, Angelo, still only a fisherman, sickened by the degradation and neglect in which his country and its sea were sinking, had decided to commit himself personally. Studying during the long nights spent at sea, sacrificing the little free time allowed by a backbreaking job, he had decided to run for mayor. His simplicity, combined with an innate charisma had convinced the people of Pollica and Acciaroli to elect him. The program was simple "to go forward you had to go back", that is to recover the values of the past, to return Acciaroli to the splendor of the past. The policy of legality and respect for the environment. The politics of listening and getting busy to solve problems. The politics that annoys the powerful and the scoundrels. In a short time the fisherman mayor had made a real cultural revolution, transforming a fishing village into a paradise for the approximately twenty thousand tourists who frequented it every summer. Unfortunately, this sudden prosperity, this sudden wealth had also attracted speculators, entrepreneurs colluding with the underworld, drug dealers: the Camorra to Acciaroli. Angelo takes sides against these powers in the first person, often alone. For this he is killed, leaving his wife, his children, his brothers, an entire community in despair.