A mural in memory of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Camorra

    The mural dedicated to Giancarlo Siani, the journalist of Il Mattino killed by the Camorra 31 years ago was inaugurated in Naples.

    Siani laughing, his Olivetti, Its Mehari, and then phrases and quotes from poets and thinkers. The mural dedicated to Giancarlo Siani, journalist of Il Mattino killed by the Camorra 31 years ago.





    A long and narrow wall to tell a story right there, in via Romaniello, near Piazza Leonardo, in the Arenella district where Giancarlo lived and where the 23 September of the 1985. A narrative cut into 26 in frame, as many as there were years that Siani had when he was shot by two hit men.

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    Two dominant colors: the Grey, such as that of the print paper, and the green, like the color of his Citroen Mehari, but also as a symbol of hope and justice. The paint used is a natural paint which, thanks to the energy of light, transforms pollutants into harmless minerals, thus favoring the reduction of pollution.

    A mural in memory of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Camorra A mural in memory of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Camorra A mural in memory of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Camorra Photo Source InWard

    An authentic work of street art curated by Orticanoodles (pseudonym of the duo Wally and Alita) and promoted by In Ward Observatory on urban creativity and for whose production a crowdfunding campaign has been launched in recent months. To create it they chose to use the painting technique of #spolvero, the same one also used by Michelangelo in the sixteenth century, to combine tradition and modernity.

    “That wall has seen everything and knows everything, it saw when we were playing football and that evening it saw everything, who came, who was stopped for two hours waiting for Giancarlo, who shot him. But that wall now speaks, it tells the story of Giancarlo, it tells a joy of him at the beginning of the wall, up to his Mehari in which he was killed ". These are the words of Paolo Siani, brother of Giancarlo, who since 1985 has not stopped a moment to be able to keep alive that same passion and that same commitment against the underworld that animated his brother.



    During the university, Giancarlo founded together with other young journalists the Democratic Movement for the Right to Information (MDDI), wrote his first articles for the monthly "Il Lavoro nel Sud", a newspaper of the trade union organization Cisl, and later began his collaboration as correspondent from Torre Annunziata for the newspaper Il Mattino di Napoli. It was from there that Giancarlo was particularly "uncomfortable" to the clans, because he began to take an interest in crime news, of camorra and to the intertwining between politics and organized crime, discovering a series of connivances.

    A mural in memory of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Camorra

    Uncomfortable, he told too much, he denounced and did not keep quiet, Giancarlo. And so on the evening of September 23, 1985, the killers wait for him outside the house and kill him. A few minutes and the Naples of the 80s is tinged, for the umpteenth time, with the red of an innocent blood. A final judgment in 2000 established that the Neapolitan journalist was killed by the affiliates of Nuvoletta clan (Lorenzo Nuvoletta later became known to most for having dissolved some of his "enemies" in acid). 15 years to arrive at this procedural truth, among too many unwelcome alleys in the investigations, false leads and confused identifications.

    But we managed to redeem Naples for a while. Today Giancarlo still lives in the memories of a city that wants to make it and in the incessant activity of his brother, Paolo Siani, who has set up an important network with Fondazione Pol.is reuse of confiscated assets and aid to innocent victims of crime.


    “It is the first mural that we dedicate to an innocent victim of crime - concludes Paolo Siani. In Campania there are over 300 innocent victims, who have nothing to do with the Camorra, killed by mistake or by will. And so we thought of making other murals, that is to make the place where a person was killed unjustly visible to the whole world ”.


    Another way to remember and move forward and give dignity to Naples.

    Below you will find the final excerpt of a really beautiful film, Fortapasc, from 2009 by Marco Risi:

    "Wickedness belongs to fools, to those who have not yet understood that we will not live forever" - Alda Merini

    Germana Carillo

    The photo of the mural is by Riccardo Siano

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