Not a minute of silence, not a minute without fighting, not a minute without shouting stop. Stop violence against women, stop the culture of obsessive possession and toxic relationships that spiral out of control.
On Sunday, during the ceremonial before the match against Sassuolo, the players of Palermo will wear a t-shirt in memory of Sara Campanella, the young student from Palermo brutally murdered in Messina by a university classmate, and of all the other victims of feminicide. A dark T-shirt with the message “Not a minute of silence” and on the back the ninety-four names of women killed in Italy in the last two years, 2024 and 2025 (so far), as if it were a sports season, to also fight against the “normalisation” of the phenomenon. An appeal not to linger in simple commemoration and not to waste a single moment in the common commitment of all civil society against injustice, abuse and violence against women, the result of social dynamics that must be eradicated.
The message of the footballers and the Club starts with Sara, a Palermo fan who grew up in a family of rosanero fans, but it symbolically embraces, immediately, all the women who are the object of the same crime, to highlight a drama that affects everyone closely and that constitutes a social emergency to all effects.
In addition to the special shirts worn in the pre-match, the footballers of Palermo and Sassuolo will have a red mark on their face, a sign that has always been linked to the commitment to this civil battle.
Palermo has always been active in the fight against gender-based violence. In 2019, in the Authority Stand of the Renzo Barbera stadium, the “pink seat” was created, a seat symbolically occupied, at every match, by any woman who could have, wanted and should have been present to support her favourite team. In 2023 the Club also made the video “ENOUGH! Palermo against violence against women“: a clip included in the Lega B awareness campaigns showing the rosanero footballers and the petals of a flower, detached with the same ease with which episodes of violence against women still happen today.