21 children every day. They are the ones who disappeared last year in Italy. Just under half of them have been found. Most of those who have been lost are the many foreign minors who arrive alone in search of the future. May 25 is the International Day of Missing Children. In Italy, a service has been set up by some to deal with them, with cases such as those of Denise Pipitone and many others.
The extraordinary commissioner of the government for missing persons is the prefect Silvana Riccio who told the Agi Agency the numbers for 2020.
«There were 7,672 children missing in our country, of which 5,511 foreigners, 71.8%. Those found were 3,332, 43.3%… The percentage of Italians found is decidedly higher, around 75% ».
Traces of the many foreign minors are lost because their destination is to other countries. Often even those who enter reception facilities seek the way to escape, even if this can lead them to crime. «The most relevant age group is that between 14 and 17 years of age: we are talking about adolescents, mostly males, with a certain autonomy. Of boys identified only by name upon arrival, who may arrive with telephone numbers and addresses of relatives and friends already in their pockets and for whom Italy is only the stage of a journey that has other countries as its final destination, mostly countries of northern Europe “.
As far as Italians are concerned, they are more often voluntary removals, linked “to family problems, forms of youth hardship, school performance”. There are the cases of abduction, even international, of minors between parents separated. The extraordinary commissioner also tells of “cases of disappearance linked directly or indirectly to the world of the network, to situations of cyberbullismo, online solicitation or sexual extortion ».
Another story is the so-called cold cases, years away and never resolved. The story of Angela Celentano and that of Emanuela Orlandi. Only recently have there been news for Denise Pipitone’s, for which there was also the theater of the Russian broadcast that claimed to have a correspondence on the little girl who in reality did not exist.
Elisa Pozza Tasca is the national spokesperson for Penelope Disappeared United and has been dealing with the subject for years, ever since he was a parliamentarian. The behavior of Russian television in the case of Denise Pipitone went beyond the exploitation, aimed at raising audience and share, which is always present in these cases. «A television broadcast is useful as long as it collaborates with the institutions. This must be the limit to the exploitation that we know always exists in these cases because hope makes families available for any confrontation ».
For the oldest cases, the files are not closed, but deposited pending news and, in the face of new evidence, the file is taken up again. Here the families who collect every report and also the television broadcasts come into play. “Families, when a window opens, are ready to do anything to get some results. I always talk about “suspended lives” because there is a suspension of life in relations with missing persons that we imagine still alive, but without being sure. This is what makes families vulnerable ”.
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