Emanuela Loi’s colleague: “When they told her to go to Palermo she burst into tears”

“When in March 1990, at the end of the trainee agent course, they gave us the destinations, Emanuela began to cry. She was not happy to go to Palermo, because it was not an easy destination at that moment. And then she was far from home, he hoped to go to Sardinia “. Giovanna Gotter is a policewoman who serves at the Milan Malpensa Polaria. She is a colleague of Emanuela Loi, the escort agent who died in the Via D’Amelio massacre, on July 19 29 years ago. Today she is located in Via D’Amelio, with her husband, a retired policeman. “I wanted to be here – he says in an interview with Adnkronos – to see the site of the massacre where Emanuela was killed”. The two women met precisely during the course of student agents of the State Police at the end of 1989. And for six months they shared the classroom, the bedroom, the friendships. “Then, at the end of the course in Trieste, I managed to go to Northern Italy, that is, close to home, while she hoped to go to Sardinia, where her family was, even though she knew it would be difficult as a first destination. . But we had been preparing for six months, we were loaded. ” “Emanuela Loi – he says movingly – was a cheerful, sociable girl, a carefree girl”. “We were in the same room, she was a girl with no crickets in her head. She had studied as a teacher, but then life led her to look for a steady job, and so she had done the competition in the Police and had won it immediately, because she was She was a very intelligent girl. She was sensitive and liked being around people. She had taken the Police course seriously, studied hard and intended to devote herself to people, as is our profession. Ours is a mission, if one does not have it. spirit of wanting to help people, he can’t be a policeman. ” Because “The Police do not just arrest criminals, in most cases we do a service to prevent crimes, not just to repress them.” ‘When I learned of his death it was tragic, I thought of his sister and parents’ July 1992, Giovanna Gotter was in the car, with her husband. “When I heard what happened on the radio I was in the car – he says – we were returning from the mountain. It was a tragedy, the first thing I thought was that I could have been in his place, I thought of his parents and his sister, who could be my parents or my sister. And today I came to via D’Amelio because it seemed right to me “. (by Elvira Terranova)