"We want clarity on the death of our aunt." Emiliana Sestu does not rest, and even yesterday, as she had done for years, every afternoon around 6 pm, she wanted to call her, "Aunt Giovanna", Giovanna Caput, the 80-year-old woman who died in hospital, in the Brotzu intensive care unit, after falling on the stairs of the post office in piazza del Carmine last Friday, beating her head violently on the steps made slippery by the rain. “It's hard to accept, when a loved one is sick somehow you expect it, but Aunt Giovanna was in great shape, and this accident wasn't supposed to happen. There is no handrail on those stairs, they are always filthy and slippery. And then the fall from the litter, while the rescuers loaded her into the ambulance, as we were told by the friend who was with her. But can it be? But can such a thing happen? ».

A history of sport

Giovanna Caput, well known in the city for her long history linked to basketball and sport (she was the founder, in 1963, together with a group of girls, including Leonilde Fantola, of the Virtus Congregation of women's basketball) but also to teaching Italian, history and geography in middle school, last Friday he reached the central post office. He had an appointment to solve some problems. It was raining. A moment and the old woman lost her balance on that slippery staircase. "Yesterday the authorization for the return of the body arrived, the funeral will be held on Thursday at 4.30 pm in the Carmine church", says Emiliana Sestu, the only relative, together with her sister, of Giovanna Caput, who had never married and had no children. "We turned to a lawyer, we want to know why our aunt died after that damned fall."

The vigilante

Last Friday Antonello Pirisi was on duty at the post office in Piazza del Carmine. Guard of the Tiger Security Institute, he was inside the office when he heard the calls for help. He was thus catapulted onto the stands. Together with him also the employee with whom Caput had an appointment. «The lady - he says - was lying on the pavement, blood was coming out of the back of her neck, she was constantly losing consciousness. We called the carabinieri and 118. The rescuers placed her on the litter but the woman fell. I got angry. And quite a lot. I wrote everything in the report delivered to the headquarters of my Institute ». Then the rush to the hospital, the hospitalization. The death.

The world of sport

While the Cagliari basketball world mourns the death of the executive. Giuseppe Pasquinucci writes: “Even today the rain brings the tears of pain. Giovanna Caput, Knight of the Republic, excellent professor and first Secretary of the Virtus Congregation, with President Fantola, has left us. He dedicated his entire life to young people, to teach, to educate. Giovanna leaves an unbridgeable void, a piece of true Virtus ". Thus the Fip Regional Committee: “Giovanna's name, as we all called her, is linked to Virtus Cagliari. A big heart, a great sensitivity. Today that heart has stopped ”. And again Virtus basket cagliari: “A silent figure, always present, standing leaning in the small door that leads to the Virtus secretariat to watch his“ girls ”play. In silence to suffer for the defeats and rejoice for the victories ".

A. Pi.

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