"Today Federico has been missing for sixteen years. Every 25th September, at 6:04 am, a blow to the heart, until it breaks. For a violent and absurd death".
Thus begins the long post published on Facebook by Lino Giuliano Aldrovandi, who - like every year - remembers the anniversary of the death of his son, the 18-year-old killed in Ferrara during a police check.
Today Federico has been missing for sixteen years. Every 25th September, at 06 and 04, a blow to the heart, until it breaks. For...
Posted by Lino Giuliano Aldrovandi on Friday, September 24, 2021
To go back to talking about Federico's painful story, he cites the song by the Sassari reggae group, Train To Roots, entitled “Policegun”, dedicated to those who were killed while in the hands of the state.
In the 2015 song “it says: 'you decided what my destiny was'. True, with the addition: 'our destiny'. That of our family, one of the many… of this Italy of ours How they killed you now the world knows. I still lack one piece: 'the complete truth and why'. Wherever you are, 'all these caresses' reach you, my little one forever ”, the message continues.
The Sardinian band is particularly dear to Lino Aldrovandi, who - again in the post - tells an anecdote: during the recording of the video of the song, the artist Giuseppe Todde ventured into a mural of a face whose features are a combination of those of Carlo Giuliani, the young man killed in Genoa during the 2001 G8, and Federico Aldrovandi.











