Many white t-shirts with his name printed on the heart, many blue balloons towards the sky and a large sign hanging from what remains of the anniversary of San Simplicio, on the stage: "Fly high among the stars, bye Gabri".
It is a moved city, the one gathered in the Basilica of San Simplicio to say goodbye to Gabriele Pattitoni who a tragic car accident in the dark of the night of May 10th took away from the future and the joy of living of the seventeen-year-old.
"There are so many of you that I can't see the end, I would never have wanted to see you like this and I hope to never see you like this again", said the parish priest, Don Antonio Tamponi, opening the celebration in front of a crowd that even filled the churchyard. , also participated by the city's police forces.
"I say to the kids, tears are falling today but, once the balloons have flown, take care to look after each other because true love between friends is to love each other responsibly and to be each other's lifesaver ", continues Don Swabs, during the homily. In front of the coffin covered with very white gerberas, he adds: "Such a small coffin weighs as much as an entire society." And to his parents, remembering the childhood years spent with Gabriele's family: «It was a gift to have been pampered in your home, in via Sassari in Calangianus, now I would just like to take you by the hand and avoid this great pain». The last farewell to Gabriele, a student at the Amsicora Institute in Olbia, is an interminable applause with an eye turned "to his blue".
