This morning, in the presence of the Chief of Police, Director General of Public Security, Prefect Lamberto Giannini, the inauguration ceremony, at the Cristallini73 community house, of the youth section of judo, boxing and artistic gymnastics of the Gold Flames of the Police of State.
Cristallini73 is the high expression of a community welfare system based on the values of reciprocity and active citizenship and was created to promote, enhance and regenerate the historic Sanità district still marked today by episodes of crime and social degradation. The State Police also wanted to participate in this solidarity community process that began in 2018 with the establishment of a gym at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità where boxing lessons are given free of charge as an alternative to the street, violence and bullying. Sport becomes a concrete possibility of change for the young people of the neighborhood called to become champions of legality.
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Cristallini73, inauguration of the youth section of judo, boxing and artistic gymnastics of the Gold Flames of the State Police
Now as then, the collaboration of the San Gennaro Onlus Foundation and the Naples Police Headquarters was indispensable, as well as the contribution of the Municipality of the Neapolitan city which entrusted the first floor of the structure to the Fiamme Oro sports group. Practicing sport means learning to respect the rules, the opponent, the teammate. Sport is a training ground for life that teaches young people to develop great values, trains them and directs them towards the acquisition of a civil and social awareness.
Today’s ceremony was an opportunity for the institutions involved to express their profound pride and great satisfaction in seeing a project strongly desired with enormous symbolic significance and an extremely important educational value. The Chief of Police, Prefect Lamberto Giannini, in his speech, underlined that “today’s is a very high human form of prevention that starts from education. There has been talk of fragility that presupposes something very precious and in fact today’s is a concrete opportunity that is given to these young people. “
To moderate the inauguration ceremony Dr. Conchita Sannino journalist of the newspaper “La repubblica”. In addition to the Chief of Police and the Police Headquarters of Naples, the Mayor of the City, the President of the San Gennaro Community Foundation and the President of the Fiamme Oro Sports Groups of the State Police were present. Exceptional testimonials are the Fiamme Oro athletes Christian Parlati and Mario Sanzullo, qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in judo and open water swimming, the Olympic champions respectively in judo and boxing, Pino Maddaloni and Vincenzo Picardi and a representative of the youth sections.
