Krakow, Italian students 'we are terrified but we are fine'

"We are terrified, they were moments of real fear but we are fine": this is what some of the young people from the Ugo Foscolo high school in Albano Laziale who were in Krakow at the time of the shooting this afternoon told their classmates on the phone.

"At the beginning, when my classmates and I heard the news coming from Krakow, we were very worried but then we heard from our friends and we calmed down: they are in shock but they are fine, it went very well, they were and we were lucky", Amelia, representative of the Castelli Romani students' network who attends the Ugo Foscolo high school in Albano Laziale, where the 34 students and 3 companions who were in the square in Krakow at the time of the attack come from, tells ANSA. shooting. "I'm very good friends with a guy who was traveling - Amelia continues - he told me on the phone, 'I don't feel like talking now, I'll tell you later, he was very scared, stressed'".

The trip to Krakow by the students of the Ugo Foscolo classical high school in Albano Laziale is part of the Journey of Remembrance in which two fourth matches took part on November 4th whose return was scheduled for this evening, according to what is also learned from the school website where the circulars for families are published and as confirmed by the students who are friends of the children on the trip.

The Journey of Remembrance is an educational and training journey dedicated to knowledge of the history of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the Shoah, deportation, totalitarianism and the Resistance.