We learned recently that the life of a talented and expensive player in the heyday of Mazara, valued and appreciated by those who have had the good fortune to know him, has had a sad epilogue. We felt a duty to include in this blog news on his death.
Adolfo Carter, Bovalino was born in May 9, 1936. Shows a strong intelligence as a child and parents, a carpenter and father of a small business owner's mother, are major projects on him: let him study, it graduate, offer a different social status. Despite a childhood spent in the midst of World War II, he manages to graduate accountant to join the University of Siderno and Messina. His passion is football, sports in which he shows qualities that brought him in later years to fight in teams more and more important, from Locri in Castrovillari, at La Spezia in series C and D series in Mazara del Vallo, a town where remained until 1964.
the age of 23 years, the U.S. player Mazara, Series D
Along with football, the other great passion Lolli, photography, already beginning to sprout since 1962, when the future father, a photographer with a studio already well underway, is the gift of a camera. Lolli and Mimma married in 1963. After 1965 Adolfo began to frequent the studio of her father and almost without realizing it starts to do an internship as a photographer that will take him in 1974 to open a photography studio with his wife.
In 1973 he made his first trip abroad Split. From places visited would take away the most beautiful things, the monuments, the faces of the people, the most beautiful urban corners, and it does, this time, with skill and professionalism has a very good car and he inherited the technical-professional by-law. With the trip to begin the pilgrimage to Yugoslavia Lolli around the world: it does in the rest period every year grant from the everyday work as a photographer by profession is almost always accompanied by his inseparable friend Pepe Battaglia. Transfers and immortalized on film the sensations, impressions, situations and places closest to his heart: the faces of children, boys, women, men at work, animals, cultured people in the explanation of certain social functions (work activities, ceremonies, rituals, etc.).. The taste of adventure, discovery, knowledge and discussion with other people, other people, other lifestyles influence and instigates his face creative but at the same time causes it to put on a plane parallel to and equal " findings "of his wander around the planet. The faces of children in Africa, Asia, South America without losing their uniqueness become "the faces of the children of the world," their smile the expectation of a better world, those "surprises" in performance of daily work activities become the exposition of the "working man", and lose their individuality to buy universal character.
In 1993 he was arrested to ransom by 'Ndrangheta , but despite the payment of a ransom, was never released. In 2003 alone, thanks to an anonymous letter, his corpse was found. His last seizure was perpetrated by the 'Ndrangheta, which then focuses primarily on drug trafficking.
was seized outside his house by the sea in Bovalino. The kidnappers surprise Carter and Mimma wife in the car. The wife was stunned with a blow on the forehead and abandoned, while her husband was taken away. Despite the payment of a ransom, the photographer is not returned to the family. The family then decided to mobilize and make their voices heard, occasionally dropping to the streets. The noise gate for the first time the anti-Mafia parliamentary commission to go to Bovalino, where kidnappings for ransom were already 18. After a few months after the abduction the kidnappers were arrested, but you will never get to the captors.
After several appeals from the family and letters written annually by his daughter Deborah, in 2003 the family came to the point anonima di un carceriere che si dichiara pentito e implora il perdono della famiglia. Il carceriere indica il punto, fra Bovalino e San luca, dove è sepolto il corpo di Lollò e imputa la sua morte ad un incidente di percorso. Il medico legale, infatti, dichiara come causa della morte un colpo alla nuca, causato da una caduta o da un colpo mal inferto. La famiglia risponde al pentito con una lettera aperta, come da lui richiesto, concedendogli il proprio personale perdono, ma chiedendogli di consegnarsi alla giustizia. La vicenda non ebbe seguito, ma gli avvocati dei condannati per il sequestro Cartisano dichiararono che poteva trattarsi della confessione di una persona in punto di morte. I funerali di Lollò Cartisano si sono svolti a Bovalino il 3 agosto 2003.
1963/64 - Campo Sportivo Vaccara Nino "
Letter Deborah, daughter of Adolfo Carter, who was kidnapped and killed in 1993. One of the kidnappers, repentant, after 10 years, reveals where is his body (of the Future July 23, 2003)
Jailer of my father, I'd like to meet
. It is important for me to look into your eyes, knowing the person who last saw my father, who heard his last words, which he shared with him the last months of his life, the ones that I have been subtracted.
I hear tell a story that until now I had lost hope of ever being able to know in this life. (...) You
we ask forgiveness before God and before men. Here, since your letter was delivered to us, our life has not been the same: our family has found itself suddenly to relive all that had happened ten years ago. (...) The pain of a wound that never healed was felt as sharp as ever. That fear that our father was no longer alive, which for years had refused to accept, is now a certainty. But this time of suffering, unspeakable pain of this loss so unjust and brutal, it was mixed in the hope that you have given us - and today the confirmation - can recover the remains of our father. Being able to celebrate the moment of farewell, could accompany him on his last journey, to cry on his tomb, by going to find every time you feel the need is for us that human comfort and for too long we have been denied. (...)
There has been returned to our father alive, but now you return it to us, along with its poor bones, a new certainty: that her life was not sacrificed in vain. His life, combined with these ten years of our endless suffering, was offered as a jailer at the very heart of the 'Ndrangheta could be born this thirst for forgiveness. The courage to ask for forgiveness. This courage involves a real strength of converting to lead to a real change of life, which leads to their responsibilities before God and before the law. This courage will allow you to look into the eyes of your children, to free them from the yoke of mafia membership. It will no longer be ashamed for you. I like to think that my father before he died he spoke with you, that his words have penetrated deep into your soul, that during these ten years have developed closely your skills - today - to ask for forgiveness. And if this may partly also have contributed to my painful letters in the paper, it is reassuring to recognize that nothing is lost. I pray God intensely to be able to forgive you from my heart.
I know the power of forgiveness is the only one that can produce conversion. I want to be able to tell you: "Yes, I forgive you, and also for me a painful, intense consolation in being able to forgive." You say you're sick, and I do not know if your illness is terminal type. If so, I already have the certainty that God will welcome you in his arms, and in his powerful embrace erase all your bad, your every sin, all your crime, no matter how heinous. God is greater than our hearts and in this hope I will pray for you.
All these things I wanted to say to you along with my brothers and my mother, whose tears are the largest offer of ten years of pain
La lunga marcia della memoria: Bovalino, 22 luglio 2008
“Ogni volta che ricordiamo, la mafia viene sconfitta”. Con queste parole, pesanti come massi e vive come la speranza di giustizia, Don Tonio Dell’Olio conclude il momento di riflessione di questa giornata di marcia per ricordare le vittime della ‘ndrangheta. Assieme ai familiari di Lollò Cartisano, il fotografo di Bovalino sequestrato e ammazzato, e ad altre vittime della violenza ‘ndranghetista, abbiamo ricordato e reso omaggio ad uomini coraggiosi. Sul monte Pietra Cappa, nel cuore dell’Aspromonte, luogo dove è Lolli's body was found, we shook around the pain of the Carter family on the plaque that has rebuilt its way of life based on the reluctance of the logic mafia, the mafia repudiation of arrogance, as he had taught them Lolli.
A long walk that would be very difficult if we had not been driven by a superior will and strength of opposition to the cancer that slowly eats a land so beautiful and fragrant as damned and rotten. The desire to remember the fallen of the war between honest and mobsters led us to these harsh and desolate trails theaters of horrendous crimes. The courage to face the landmarks of the 'Ndrangheta born insatiable need for justice that we bring in, a collective need that unites the different life stories told there, in the shadow of the majestic stone cover and protected by the spirit of the ten, hundred, thousand Lolli. Timeless spirit capable of giving us the energy to go on despite everything, despite the gap.
Deborah Carter, daughter of Lolli, has wisely said that the tragic experience of the kidnapping of her father she and her family have found new meaning to life. I understand the meaning of those words. I see the essence of this phrase in the annual pilgrimage of the Carter family on the place of memory that holds the sacrifice of Lolli. A walk frightening the established order mafioso who fears more than anything the human conscience and dall'atrofia dall'anestetica resignation.
What made the day special twenty-two of July, at the foot of the Aspromonte monolith, was the sharing of experiences "a victim" which has allowed a spontaneous support of the subjective suffering of everyone. The pain of bringing a sick even strangers to this suffering, "not cry alone," as we called Stefania Grasso. (...) The Long March of the memory that has passed through the fort of the 'Ndrangheta Aspromonte has shaken and scarred souls in those places, for too long a symbol of caustrofobica captivity.
"The other year for the commemoration of my father - said her daughter moved to Lolli - only we were going family, locked in our grief, we feel a certain gloom. This year has been magical because we were not alone and we could share our grief with all the boys who accompanied us on the grave of my father. "
sharing of suffering is the first step in the rebirth of a community destroyed by the collective pain. The evening at the home of Lolli, in front of a moon emblematic, like any family twenty-two July, they invited close friends to celebrate the memory of his homily in Lolli. But this year a new light and renewed energy has permeated the walls of the house built by Lolli and from which it was taken away by a 'ndrina of Africo July 22, 1993. A sad and mass participation. Don Tonio Dell'Olio has been able to engage believers and nonbelievers through a celebration deeply uncertain and full of love for human life, shifting the emphasis from the formality of the traditional liturgy. The glow of the moon reflected on the Ionian Sea el'agave symbol of rebirth, have framed the meeting Prayer in memory of Lolli. This year's meeting saw the participation of other family members of victims of the 'Ndrangheta. U.S. not to forget, to start over and rebuild a united community disrupted by bullying mafia .(...)
