Pain and anger at the funeral of Leonardo Acquaviva, the child who died at school

There were dozens and dozens of people at the funeral of Leonardo Acquaviva, the 5 and a half year old child who died after a tragic fall in the stairwell of the Pirelli elementary school in Via Goffredo da Bussero, Milan. Leonardo would have blown 6 candles this December. Instead, he died last Tuesday after he crashed more than 10 meters from his school's stairwell on Friday.

He died at the Niguarda hospital and just at a hospital ward the parents decided to allocate the offers that the funeral participants wanted to do in memory of their child. The last greeting on Friday 25 October at the church of San Giovanni Battista, where the small white coffin was received with a moved silence. At the entrance of the church various crowns of flowers were laid, one by the companions and parents of the first C, his class: "Leonardo will always be in our hearts". (Continue after photo)

A composition of Nerazzurri daisies was also brought to the churchyard to form a football shirt with the word "Leo" and a ball. Pain, tears, anger but above all disbelief. The whole community that gathered around the little Leonardo Acquaviva and his family is for the most part appalled by this tragedy which the Milan prosecutor also investigates. (Continue after photo)

Before the beginning of the mass, officiated by don Giuseppe Buraglio, the moved silence of family, friends, some children just out of school and many inhabitants of the neighborhood was broken only by an elder who shouted twice "delinquents!" Before give the white coffin covered with roses a kiss, writes the daily newspaper Repubblica. (Continue after photos)

At the end of the service, a paternal uncle of Leonardo read a message on behalf of his nephew: "Dear mother and father, do not cry. I was a happy child and I will continue to be so, thank you for all the love you gave me in the hospital, you and your friends. I don't want anything like that to happen at school anymore, promise me. I will be with you every day, I will be your strength. Your little Leo ".

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