Rome, the electric Sheep will not reopen. "But it is not a defeat"

"So I will be bombarded again with phone calls from journalists?", Smiles Danilo, who has become a very little dad of a boy, still incredulous in front of so much attention. "We also wrote it in the letter to Go Fund Me; our library, as you have known it, will not reopen. It is a choice that we do not experience as a defeat. One phase has ended, it is true, but there is so much energy in circulation that something new will be born, because the Electric Sheep is now everywhere". Centocelle's response to the flames that hit the library, as well as the pinseria Cento55 and the Baraka Bistrot, it was exemplary. The inhabitants gathered around the managers, took to the streets and even started the LAC, the free (and heterogeneous) assembly that meets every week and which all converged, from the occupants of the Forte Prenestino to the managers of the premises, to the mothers of the committees, to the individual citizens.

A situation diametrically opposed to that which is experiencing the neighborhood in which another historical library is born, Giufa, struck, in the night between Friday and Saturday by a real raid (the third) in a neighborhood like San Lorenzo which, as he told Republic, the manager Francesco Mecozzi, after the murder of Desiree Mariottini, was "armored by the police, young people are no longer present and the streets are deserted and unsafe at night". And where, "in total indifference, they close historical restaurants and craft shops".

"Centocelle is in turmoil", continues Danilo, "what generated the Electric Sheep in terms of sharing, relationships, solidarity network, cultural promotion, is now a collective heritage, our message has reached everyone. Something different will be born, but we still don't know what shape it will take ”.

The letter, sent to Go Fund Me, and the post published on the Facebook page of the library, are an act of transparency towards the many who have made a donation, coming to touch the roof of 20 thousand euros, hoping for a reopening of the Library . "Before embarking on new paths we must close this transition phase as quickly as possible," they write. "As usual in these cases, the time to unblock institutional funds is long, always assuming that we succeed, and for this reason we have decided to rely, after a long and not easy reflection, at least in part on the money that many have given thanks to the online campaign launched by one of our supporters ". But, as pointed out on the crowdfunding platform, Given that the donations will not go to finance the reopening of La Pecora Elettrica, but will instead serve to support us owners in this delicate phase ", those who want can cancel their donation.

"We cannot force their will, but if they take a different decision, which we hope, we will be close to them concretely. We want to respond concretely to all this," said the capital's superintendent, Carmine Esposito, responding to journalists on the decision not to reopen from the owners of the library. "The State never gives up, facing nothing. Sometimes you can lose some small battle, but the road to legality is the only way to win wars. We have to show ourselves close to people. We will never abandon people. "We will do everything, we will try to help difficult situations to take off," explained Esposito.