ROME. Football and Government together for missing persons. “When someone disappears, let’s make a team: call 112 immediately”: this is the banner that will be displayed in midfield, in all Serie A stadiums for the 33rd day of the championship, after the agreement between Lega Serie A and extraordinary government commissioner for missing persons, the prefect Antonino Bella. Not only. A commercial made by the office of the extraordinary commissioner will appear on the big screens – foresees the same agreement.
The goal is to inform the public so that a social conscience is formed on a dramatic phenomenon that involves many families: in 2021, out of 19 thousand and 269 reports of disappearance in Italy, 9 thousand and 650 people lost their tracks and most some of them are minor. «Lega Serie A is ready to make its contribution in this important campaign – said the president, Lorenzo Casini -. Football can and must transmit useful messages to the community. I thank the Commissioner for having thought of us as a channel of social communication and I thank the clubs that have already contributed to this cause ».
The prefect Antonino Bella, extraordinary government commissioner for missing persons, in thanking the Serie A league, described the initiative as «beautiful and of great help. It is necessary to spread the knowledge of the phenomenon of missing persons, to counter it and prevent it. It is important to work as a team, to involve everyone in a drama that, every day, leads to cases of disappearance and puts many families in a state of suffering ».