" If the help had started promptly, that is, when poor Patrizia made the first phone call to 112, today the boys would be alive and at home with their parents ."
This is the very harsh accusation launched in some interviews released this morning by the lawyer Gaetano Laghi, lawyer for the family of Cristian Molnar, the 25-year-old missing since last Friday, after being overwhelmed by the waters of the Natisone . "After having also carried out an inspection in the location of the tragedy, I am very struck by the underestimation of the initial situation", insisted the lawyer.
«I would expect, from those responsible for receiving telephone calls and requests for help - he continued - such preparation that, having news of a person who is in that precise place, they know how to intervene. It was probably those first moments of underestimation of the danger that then determined the fact that the boys were not saved in time . Consequently, it will be necessary to evaluate the degree of the omissions, because the prosecutor of Udine says that we are talking about omissions and we agree on this. Unfortunately, however, it was an omission, a delay that affected the rescue. I can reiterate that I am intimately convinced of this circumstance: if the rescue had started promptly today the boys would be alive ."
In the case, the chief prosecutor Massimo Lia has opened a case for manslaughter, precisely to verify whether the rescue was timely. For the moment it has been ascertained that there were four phone calls made by Patrizia , the last one unanswered.
Meanwhile , the search for Cristian Molnar continues. Now the good weather and clear water could favor the discovery. If the searches remain unsuccessful, evaluations will be made tomorrow evening at the end of the tenth day. An impressive effort, eighty to one hundred rescuers moved every day and bitterness was expressed over some statements by the missing man's brother, Petru Radu, who in one of the few interviews given defined the vast rescue operation as "very theatrical" . The army of rescuers - after dozens of hours a day spent in the water - hopes that it was a misinterpretation of the words spoken by the interpreter.
(Unioneonline/L)