Kata, the missing girl becomes a political case: “It’s the fault of the occupied hotels”

Six months without Kata. Without the slightest clue, without an investigative lead to follow. With parents who, in their inconsolable despair (also understandable) had the terrible idea of ​​turning to mediums. A clear sign: for them, only with a miracle will they be able to see their daughter again. A story, that of the 5-year-old girl who disappeared and was swallowed by darkness on June 10th, which is essentially no longer talked about. Our newspaper, on the contrary, did not accept this line. Because you can’t expect a girl to be torn away from her family’s affection without asking for explanations with monotonous insistence. What happened on that Saturday at the end of spring, when Florence was preparing for the two semi-finals of fantasy football and, 50 kilometers away, at the Mugello race track, the MotoGP was taking place? Kata was kidnapped by a pedophile, by a gang of gypsies and then taken to a foreign capital (there was talk of Madrid) to beg on the street, killed in revenge against her uncle (who allegedly ran the business of illegally occupied rooms in the ‘old Astor hotel and then “resold”) or secretly sent to Peru? And if she was really killed, where is her body?

One topic, that of the disappearance of the South American girl, also entered the electoral campaign for the local elections that will decide Dario Nardella’s successor at the head of Florence. Matteo Renzi, during the presentation of the Italia Viva candidate, Stefania Saccardi, pointed the finger at those who allowed that (and many other) illegal occupations on the banks of the Arno. “A girl disappeared in June. She lived in an illegally occupied structure. The city of the Institute of the Innocents cannot pretend that nothing happened. If a girl disappears, the city mourns.” Position also shared entirely by Stefania Saccardi. “You don’t leave girls in occupied hotels for months among hundreds of criminals.” And in the deafening silence of a city accustomed to certain horrors, our newspaper will stubbornly continue to ask what happened to an innocent girl, swallowed by an illegally occupied hotel, in the indifference of the ruling class that has always administered Florence.