The founder of the Prometeo Association does not stop in the fight against pedophilia.
Guest of Costanzo's broadcast he tells the drama of the children of Bucharest and the Romanian government meets urgently.
"I saw children growling in orphanages"
Those in Bergamo who followed him in his meetings on the children of Bucharest and on pedophilia are used to his strong and blunt sentences, contained with difficulty, just enough for the message to arrive. And yesterday afternoon even the viewers of Buona Domenica had to leave the fun of the festive afternoon for a moment to receive the "punch in the stomach" that Massimiliano Frassi, founder of the Prometheus Association against pedophilia in Bergamo, launched through the cameras. Guest of Maurizio Costanzo, for the second time, after the one at the Maurizio Costanzo Show, he described in a way so real as to seem surreal, the images he saw years ago in Bucharest and last time only 15 days ago. To Costanzo's statement: “Before Romania can enter Europe it would have to deal with 50. 000 children living in the sewers of Bucharest ”he urged“ Italy then has to deal with its primacy of sex tourists ”. An outlet for the charter flights that in his meetings he said also depart from Bergamo for Bucharest, for Thailand and for other countries where it is easy to find a desperate child to turn into a lover. And often in AIDS patients. “At the Bucharest station I saw an eight-year-old girl with some street educators approaching, they loaded her into the car and raped her. When we approached to take her away they told us "Go ahead, tomorrow other children will be taken away and no one knows what will happen to them". Then Frassi brought the cold to the television studio accustomed to welcoming serious stories, yes, but above all entertainment and serenity. "I've seen children in orphanages growl, left in their excrements, ”he said, his eyes shining, but above all full of anger. Those who in Bergamo who follow him know, due to the obstacles he had when he sought a seat for his association, those of a sense of powerlessness compared to the numerous cases of pedophilia that have been reported to him. And perhaps even when the attention rises to become tension on some stories, and then falls when the moment passes. “Those children remain there waiting for someone to take them away - continues the president of Prometeo - if they can resist. And if they are lucky to find someone to welcome them. " Just as it happened for six boys that Costanzo hosted yesterday, who on the documents are 17 or 18 years old, but who in the faces, in the body still as children and in the ability to express themselves much less. They were adopted by Italian families from Ravenna or Taranto. They resumed living, eating after having fed on cockroaches for a long time, having forgotten how to eat, how to feed, both their body and their emotions. Together with a doctor, Costanzo and Frassi have undertaken the commitment to follow them, to re-educate them in nutrition, including the emotional one. The next appointment is between two Sundays.
Others, however, did not make it, they weren't so lucky. "I saw them, I saw kids kissing you good night by opening the lid of a manhole - continues Frassi - underneath is their house". In the photos that are broadcast and that were taken in Bucharest, those houses can be seen: “Here it is, what you see in the garbage is not a garbage bag, but a child. He sleeps in the sewers, which are real sewers. I went down too, I saw their "rooms", but the children are still safe there. It turns out that I am no longer. " Frassi lived all this and even if only for a few minutes many other people through his words, which convey the same emotion, anger pity and bewilderment also in the book he wrote "Children from the sewers of Bucharest" - a journey into the last circle of violated childhood ". On the cover one of them, breathing glue from a bag. So for a few minutes you forget everything. All.