“My Tommy is dead, I want to know why”: Monastir, Marco Ugas' outburst

On December 12, the buzz of the intercom at home breaks through the night that already smells of Christmas. At kilometer 15 of Highway 131 there was an accident and a boy did not make it. It is the Carabinieri of Monastir who ring the door to communicate the news that breaks the heart and the legs. "You must come immediately: on the 131 there was an accident and there is a boy on the ground."

Pain

Two weeks later Marco Ugas, the father of the unfortunate boy who died in the tragic crash, remembers those dramatic moments. «Tommaso went out early in the evening, then - after taking the scooter home - he turned off the light and went out again: he never did. I had just fallen asleep when the doorbell rang. They were the carabinieri. My wife Daniela immediately understood that that boy was our son »says today Marco Ugas, 51, the father of the 17-year-old Kosmoto Monastir football champion, junior defensive center who was now training with his older teammates in the regional excellence.

Marco Ugas that night got dressed in a hurry and got into the car praying to keep the flame of hope alive. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, the time to cover the route that separates their home, in the center of Monastir, from kilometer 15 of the state road, in the territory of San Sperate, the scene a couple of hours before the accident. “There was a shoe sticking out of the cloth that mercifully covered that boy. I recognized them immediately: that body on the asphalt belonged to Tommaso, my child ».

Without peace

Two weeks after the tragedy that took his son away, Marco Ugas is restless, hyperactive: from the cemetery, where he goes several times a day to pray in front of the tomb of Thomas, "my number one", at home, where he alternates with his wife to stay next to his 10-year-old daughter, then up to the construction site where he works, the quarry and the building materials company, where everything speaks of "Ziccu", "the nickname that Tommaso carried with him since the little sister, tenderly distorting her name, called him "Tommasiccu".

What was life like for the Ugas family before, and what is it like now after the tragedy? The question remains in the air for endless seconds. “Ours was a beautiful life. Tommaso was a number one, he had many interests, he was able at the same time to play on the playstation, study, for school and for the license, and be on the mobile phone like all the boys of his age. The company was his kingdom, together with the football pitch, the swimming pool, his toy cars, the quad bike. He often came to the quarry and not just for fun: he was already helping and collaborating. He had a bank account of 30 thousand euros. I worked for him and his little sister, for their future. They tell me that I am strong, but now without him he is no longer the same, he will never be the same again ", reflects Marco Ugas, owner of Dos srl Monastir, who fights the biggest battle, that of pain, immense in front of him" of an old legal matter linked to the quarry itself and for which I was acquitted ».

Friends

Tommaso, his friends and that cursed night are his constant thought: «They had gone out for a ride in the car, in Cagliari, in Piazza Yenne. but they hadn't even stopped, just one turn and go. Then, upon returning home, the accident happened », says the entrepreneur. His studio is covered with photographs of family and of Tommaso: the first years of life, adolescence, games and dinners with friends, swimming in the pool and football matches with the Kosmoto shirt are the stages of the too short life of "Ziccu", snatched from the affection of his loved ones by a tragedy that leaves no peace. «My son got into that car of his own accord, I don't discuss that, but I'm waiting to know what happened. A dad must know, they must tell me why they took me a child. And I want to know who drove the car. He says he does not remember anything, he will be assailed by remorse, but he must remember and he must do it immediately because I need to know », Marco Ugas vented.

My thoughts fly to the boy who drove the Ford Fiesta, Enrico Marongiu, 21, from Monastir, who was also injured in the accident, along with the other passenger, a 16-year-old from Monastir. «Tommaso's friends meet in front of the cemetery: they tell me they are waiting for me, when I arrive, to keep me company. In a certain sense I am pleased, it is the measure of how much they loved my son ».

Ignazio Pillosu