BOLZANO. On the one hand, the vice-president of the province of Bolzano Mark Etiquettein memory of the second victim in San Candido – Waltraud Jud – he underlined the heroic perspective of the gesture via social media – “She could have minded her own business when she heard the shots in the neighboring apartment with which the killer had killed her father. She could have pretended nothing had happened, watching from the corner of the window waiting for the police to arrive. Instead, no, she did not turn away. She tried to intervene to stop the neighbor who, as witnesses say, was shooting wildly. Perhaps with her gesture she saved other lives – added Galateo – And so we express our closeness to her and her family, our condolences but above all our sincere thanks for the heroic example she has given with her sacrifice. Thank you, Danke Waltraud Jud” – on the other hand, the issue of “law enforcement” seems to have become an arena for political conflict.
In particular, the provincial councilor of Suedtiroler Freiheit, Sven Knoll he criticized the management of the tragic episode: “It is absolutely unacceptable that volunteer firefighters have to carry out their duties at the risk of their own lives in operations for which they are not even responsible”, and then spoke of a “failure of the Italian police and army, who were unable to guarantee the safety of the population despite the massive presence in Alta Val Pusteria and have needlessly endangered the firefighters”.
According to the councilor, the incident “highlights the urgent need to transfer responsibility for the police force to the Autonomous Province, in order to improve the organization and ensure the safety of the population.” “The time has come to take control of the security of our homeland,” he concluded.
The answer came from the deputy and regional coordinator of FdI, Alessandro Urziwho defined as “unlistenable and to be rejected the ravings of the provincial councilor of the secessionist group Suedtiroler Freiheit, Sven Knoll, who goes so far as to support the thesis of the failure of the action of the carabinieri which, on the contrary, in San Candido, allowed to put an end to the shooting in which two innocent people lost their lives, in addition to the killer who turned the gun used to terrorize an entire community on himself”.
According to Urzì, Knoll’s “real goal” is “to request that the Italian State hand over control of the police to the autonomous Province”. The FdI deputy therefore expresses “the utmost solidarity with the Carabinieri for how the dramatic emergency was managed and for how, with extreme professionalism, the intervention of the special forces, appreciated by the entire population of San Candido and the province of Bolzano, ended the shooting, preventing the consequences from being even worse than the already very serious toll”.
2024-08-20 10:52:34