A very strong emotion, many tears, the parents immersed in deep pain: the funeral of Gabriele Viel took place this afternoon in Villasimius , the 19-year-old victim last Thursday of a dramatic road accident on the provincial road 17 near the sea of Porto sa Ruxi.
At least a thousand people who wanted to cling to the family , with the funeral rite celebrated outdoors, in front of the country church of Santa Maria, on the outskirts of the town by the parish priest Don Gianni Soro who spoke about Gabriele, a sunny boy full of life victim of an accident in the moment of youth.
He was riding his motorbike, Thursday afternoon, on that provincial road that he had traveled a thousand times. Then the crash, the desperate rush to save his life. The helicopter rescue, the Brotzu hospital, lots of love around him. But it was all in vain. Gabriele died two days later amid the sufferings of his father, mother and everyone who knew him. After the mass, the transfer of the body to the cemetery for burial.
