Nice massacre, Foreign Ministry: “An Italian among the victims.” Still five more dispersed – The Republic

Rome – There is an Italian among the victims of the massacre of Nice . The Foreign Ministry informs that the judicial police French formalized indicates recognition of Mario Casati . The children were looking for him for three days at each hospital. In the evening the family was informed by the French police, in the presence of officials from our Consulate and Italian Crisis Unit.

Casati was a nonagenarian lives in Milan but originally from Brianza and was located in Nice with a friend, Maria Grazia Ascoli , 79. She’s still missing. With them it is assumed there was another friend, but there are no certainties about his identity.

Maria Grazia and Mario Ascoli Casati

Among the victims “is also an Italian-American citizen.” Without giving further details, it refers the same statement from the Foreign Ministry. This is the 20 year-old Nicolas Leslie. The young man was in France as part of a student exchange program. “It is a tragic and devastating news,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor of the University, Nicholas Dirks. Leslie studying environmental science, was born in Italy, in Milan, but lived and studied in the United States.

Nicolas Leslie

Concern remains high for Angelo D’Agostino (71 years) and Gianna Muset (68 years) of Voghera , they were friends, the two couples were together on the Promenade des Anglais to watch the fireworks on 14 July.

also the mysterious fate of Carla Gaveglio , 48, from Piasco in the province of Cuneo. Her husband and daughter are hospitalized Pasteur. The 14-year-old girl says she saw the conscious mother when it was loaded into an ambulance. But to date there is no news of her, even if the list of wounded was already completed. It seems to have disappeared into thin air. the husband Peter Massardi from his hospital bed he just write to Facebook message: “Thank you for all the friendship you have given me.” Twenty-four hours before Postava: “I am convinced to give you surely good news soon with the help of our angels.” Carla Gaveglio, she told her daughter, did not speak and had problems in the legs and pelvis. He had no documents or cell in the attack because she had lost her purse. “We gave her photographs Crisis Unit, but so far there has been no result,” explains the husband.

the consular authorities of Rome continue to repeat be waiting for the official list of victims by France. But the identification, which has, in most cases the DNA test, it needs time. Between the health authorities of Nice and the Ministry of Justice in Paris there seems to be agreement on how long it will take more.

Some, among the relatives of the victims, did not heed the advice to stay at home and wait and they went to Nice. “We can not wait any longer at home,” explains Maximilian, the greatest son of Angelo D’Agostino. “This wait is becoming an agony.” Are turning incessantly for hospitals, as they did, to the news today, the two sons of Mario Casati . D’Agostino’s cell phone went off immediately after the attack. That of his wife rang vacuum for a few hours, then you downloaded.

“The recognition of the victims of operations are sensitive and complex” evidence to justify the Consul General of Italy in Nice, Serena Lippi. “The French authorities are taking a very long procedure, but very precise. The bodies were in a state unrecognizable and before giving information necessary to be sure.”

“Every embassy, ​​with a dedicated unit, it is informed in real time of the situation of European citizens. it is the least we owe them, “assured Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault French Foreign. But the mayor of Piasco, arrived in Nice to try Gaveglio Carla, do not listen to reason: “It is a very serious that there is not an authority, a minister, who will take the responsibility of saying” we identify the victims and injured in a few hours ” with many photographs around and many relatives arrived in town. “

It remains hospitalized in intensive Care Andrea Avagnina , 53, another of the Italians involved in the attack. To confirm the report was the Municipality of San Michele Mondovi, near Cuneo, where man is alderman. Found his wife also live Marinella Ravotti , a nurse of 55, as initially reported missing.

The woman is sedated, but is not life threatening. A trace her was her daughter, running now to Nice with her boyfriend. His face was very swollen and was recognized thanks to the rings on her finger. “They searched in all hospitals without success” said the mayor of San Michele Mondovi, Domenico Michelotti. “Then they returned Pasteur hospital where he was hospitalized dad and thanks to an Italian doctor they found it. It was pretty much in the next room.”

It was found unharmed the dell’italo- family Canadian Salvatore Sermoneta. The man, 55, had planned a tour in Europe with his wife and small child. The eldest daughter, alarmed by the lack of news, had given the alarm. But they were safe in London. Nice were not even past.

And in the city wounded by ‘attack at noon today everything stopped. A minute of silence in the place, flooded with flowers and candles, has become the memorial of the attack, it ended the Marseillaise and the song “Nizza la Bella”. For the occasion, the Promenade des Anglais was reopened and in just a human tide has flooded for the applause to the victims. Whistles and invective were instead dumped from the crowd in the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. “Buu”, “Go to work”, “murderers”, “resignation” she shouted, and upon his arrival that at the end of the ceremony.

The prime minister, interviewed by BFM-TV, has confirmed that an attack “very bloody” was foiled “just before” Euro 2016. “We are at war, certainly not a conventional war but still a war” and there could be “replicas”, “there will be other innocent victims” . Valls called on France to “no crack”, to “not divide”, because it is just what the terrorists seek. He assured that France “will win on the SI.”