Actress Donatella Finocchiaro: “My Catania will rise from the flood as from the ashes”

“Like a universal deluge, the images left me speechless and breathless. But my city has an inner strength, which always makes it rise again, like the Phoenix from the ashes, after an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a flood…”. It is the hope and at the same time the firm conviction expressed at AdnKronos by the actress Donatella Finocchiaro, from Catania, awarded this year with the Golden Globe as best leading actress for the film ‘Le sorelle Macaluso’ and soon to theater in Rome with the show ‘Taddarite’ (‘bats’, in Sicilian), commenting on the scenes of these days in his Catania. “I find it hard to think of my father and my brother, who are right there, in the eye of the storm … They’ve been locked up at home for three days, it’s like a new lockdown and what’s more, after a summer spent sheltering from rain of ashes from Etna: it really seems like an infinite condemnation – exclaims Finocchiaro – If not a tragedy, it really is a sort of survival course. But my city will survive, as always: we Catania have great strength, we do not despair never and let’s start again better than before! “. The actress observes again:” Unfortunately, the powerful of the Earth do a lot of bla-bla-bla about the climate but then they do little or nothing. It is symptomatic that what is happening in Catania happens coincidentally with the great people of the planet gathered in Rome for the G20 … We hope they feel at least a little ashamed, for the protection of too many hidden interests, while the only real transparent interest should be to defend our Earth “. ( by Enzo Bonaiuto)