The murder of Eraldo Cecchini is not a simple criminal event, it’s an unsolved mystery that a whole town had removed from its memory because of a collective sense of guilt. The victim was a local politician that was at the centre of a huge controversy for his decision to cut traffic and parking spaces in the centre of Trieste. And then he was suddenly killed.

A few years ago I realized that is memory had been erased, and so this year a few weeks before the anniversary I proposed to the editor of il Piccolo to have a feature about the event. Luckily the project received not just the green light but a huge space with a double central page with this short novel of mine.

To write it I interviewed many of the people involved with both the victim and the murderer, and I found a story that I had never heard of before. The story was publised on 24th April 2024, on the 33th anniversary of Eraldo Cecchini’s murder.