Kata, that camera that first recorded a scream and then the slamming of a door
The search for the missing five-year-old girl continues, a possible turning point in the fourth grade
« The scream of a child, or a boy, immediately followed by the slamming of a car door . The video surveillance camera of a pizzeria recorded it, a short distance from the former Hotel Astor in Florence ».
A report by "Quarto Grado - Le Storie" tells it about the disappearance of Kata, the 5-year-old Peruvian girl who disappeared into thin air from the courtyard of the former Hotel Astor, in Florence, on 10 June.
At 17:20 of that day, it is the reconstruction of Quarto Grado, «the video camera of the room located at the crossroads between via Monteverdi and via Veracini, a three-minute walk from the former Hotel Astor, records a cry that pierces the silence of the quarter. Two hours and seven minutes have passed since little Kata was filmed at 3.13 pm, still inside the occupied building. The pizzeria is a three-minute walk from the former Hotel Astor, and 120 meters from the buildings on the corner of via Monteverdi and via Boccherini, where in recent days the investigators have entered several times to carry out searches in the apartments and cellars, interview all residents and verify that the child had not been held in the building. Quarto Grado then delivered the video, and the relative audio, to the carabinieri of Florence who are investigating for kidnapping for the purpose of extortion ».
THE MISSING – The carabinieri start from the only certain fact: the girl disappeared on Saturday 10 June from the former Astor hotel.
The video of another surveillance camera aimed at via Boccherini frames her at 3.01 pm as she returns alone to the structure after being removed by her playmates, then at 3.12 pm when she climbs the stairs inside the courtyard to the third floor and then when she returns below. From there on, all traces of the little girl are lost. When the mother returns, around 3.45 pm, to the former hotel, she takes a shower and is convinced that her daughter is in the company of her little brother. But he soon discovers that this is not the case and, according to what has been reconstructed so far, he sets out to look for her in the former hotel and on the street.
Then, at 20, the report to the carabinieri which triggers the missing person protocol. For two weeks there have been reports of sightings of the little girl from all over Italy: they are all being examined by investigators because nothing should be overlooked.
«We cannot lose hope for the discovery of Kata, we are convinced of the great work that the carabinieri arm that has been in charge of the investigation is doing. The cameras installed by the Municipality, around 1,600, are available to the forces of order», said the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella.
(Unioneonline/D)
