Annalisa Strada
Ed. Einaudi Ragazzi
pp. 138
"I wanted to be a happy, just, useful and respectable person. They did not give me the time". It is with this sentence that Annalisa Strada ends the book "I, Emanuela - agent of the escort of Paolo Borsellino". She, Emanuela, is Emanuela Loi, the first female police officer who died in service on 19 1992 July.
25 years from what was one of the saddest pages in Italian history, in that State-Mafia duel that still shows no signs of stopping and where, besides her, magistrate Paolo Borsellino and Agostino Catalano agents, Vincenzo Li, lost their lives Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina.
But who was Emanuela? Annalisa Strada tells it in a simple, fluent and exciting way. Emanuela Loi was from Sestu, a town near Cagliari. A humble family his: father railwayman, a housewife mother and a brother and a sister, Maurizio and Claudia. Emanuela is not even twenty years old when her sister, after her master's degree, convinces her to try the competition to enter the Police: a risky idea, but that will later prove to belong to her, thanks to that sense of duty that has always distinguished her . A choice that makes it grow quickly and far from its land, in Trieste first, then in Palermo.
A quick and light narrative allows us to know closely what was the dreams, expectations and fears of a young girl, but also his strength and determination. From the first pages, Emanuela puts in line who begins to read the book: "before starting I'll explain one thing: you're not going to read the story of my whole life or a diary, but the story of the most important moments. Those that made me become the person you will discover".
And that's right: it's really worth knowing who Emanuela Loi was and how good and right, even though in a short time, he did. We owe it to her and to all those people, servants of the state and not, who are dead by the mafia hand.
Anita Fiaschetti
