Returning the former super-prison of Fornelli dell'Asinara to the community .
The appeal was launched by the organizers and artistic director Sante Maurizi of the 19th edition of the festival “Pensieri e Parole: libri e film all'Asinara”, a request addressed to the President of the Region, Alessandra Todde for the recovery of the building, in use by the Conservatoria delle Coste, since 2017.
In the petition, launched on the change.org platform (https://chng.it/Bs4V2QHbXn) the festival organizers ask to activate the same path also for the Cala d'Oliva guesthouse that in 1985 hosted the judges Falcone and Borsellino , today used as a station of the Forestry Corps, and the famous bunker where the mafia boss Totò Riina was detained . The hope is the creation of an institutional coordination group between the Sardinia Region, the municipality of Porto Torres and the National Park to define a shared project path and the management methods of the three structures.
«The ordinary use of the sites, symbols of legality and historical memory – they explain – could enrich the opportunities offered by the island with the setting up of agile museum structures and laboratory activities aimed especially at the new generations: the most effective way to ensure that Asinara, in addition to being a place of extraordinary environmental interest, becomes the place of the best national historical memory in the fight against the mafia , terrorism and common crime ».
Values and messages also contained in this edition of the festival, in the two evenings of cinema, music and literature, hosted on August 24 and 25 at the Fornelli pier.
Guest of honor on Saturday 24th will be the actor and director Antonio Albanese who will be awarded the “Isole del cinema” prize for his “Cento domeniche”, a 2023 film written, directed and interpreted by the actor. The evening will be enriched by the discussion between Luana Ilardo, daughter of Luigi Ilardo, a collaborator of justice, killed by the mafia in 1996, and the director of the Asinara National Park Vittorio Gazale on the book by Anna Vinci “Luigi Ilardo. State Murder”, and by the presentation of the mystery by Nora Venturini, theater director and screenwriter, “Una morte senza peso” together with the president of ARCI Nord Sardegna, Franco Uda.
