A mural in Orgosolo , the tradition that in the Nuorese town is constantly renewed. A work in memory of a human and judicial affair that cannot be forgotten. In memory of Aldo Scardella, a young man from Cagliari accused of a crime he had not committed.
Enclosed in the Buoncammino prison, with an extreme gesture, Aldo puts an end to his life in the first days of July 1986. He was 25 years old.
The mural was created by Teresa Podda and Maria Luisa Monni in Corso Repubblica , in front of the parish church of San Salvatore. A central place in the life of the community, where the memory of a young man who cultivated abruptly interrupted dreams and utopias is preserved and handed down.
On the wall, under the title “The drama of an innocent, that young dreamer who committed suicide” , the face of Aldo, the one handed down by a now familiar photo, and the bars of the cell that was the tragic horizon of his last days.
Then the thoughts that express the sense of a private and collective history that Cristiano, Aldo's brother, continues to perpetuate in search of a full truth and a finally restorative justice.
The words of the mural, for future reference: “Aldo had cumpresu and aiad sa crai de cussa cella chi non aperid mai. Come ch'est foras " . And again: “Poor innocent! He did not support a humiliating accusation but pro sos caros ses semper vivo "and" Menzus unu culpevole in foras, hi no unu nossente in intro ".
Nicola Dettori promoted the initiative: “ I met Aldo in Cagliari in the early eighties of the last century. A friendship was born. I wrote him a few letters after his arrest. You never answered me. The tragedy he experienced must also be known by young people. A duty of memory, the memory, as we read in the mural, of "a wounded star that shines up there in the sky".
