A “compatible” shape among those of hundreds of commuters getting off the train at 9.40am last Thursday. In the videos they just stand out the denim jacket and backpack. Then other cameras record it more and more clearly while walk through the shops from the Milan Central Station. And the doubts disappear definitively when the frames frame Edoardo Galli stop in front of a place and have an ice cream. For a handful of minutes the boy wanders aimlessly among the shop windows, as if he had to waste some time. In the end another person appears at his side, perhaps a friend. Certainly someone he knows well. The two appear to be talking calmly before walk away together from Milan.
There is a carried out in the research of the high school student Edoardo Galli, the 16 year old who disappeared a week ago from Colico in the province of Lecco, who disappeared into thin air while going to school. Not an escape to the mountains of Alta Valsassina – as had been hypothesized – in a sort of “survival test” without water or food, but a voluntary and planned removal. Why the cell phone is turned off from the moment the boy boarded the train that took him from Morbegno to Milan.
It was there early Thursday morning and that was the last moment Edward was taken back alive. The young man had left his home in Colico, where he lives with father Alessandro, mother Natalia (of Russian origins) and her younger sister, and had taken a train to Morbegno to get to the scientific high school which he has been attending for years (here is the interview with the principal). But once he reached his destination he went back up, alone, on a train in the opposite direction, towards Brianza and Milan.
It took days of analysis of the cameras by the police of Lecco, led by Colonel Alessio Carparelli, to find another trace of Edward. The discovery of his arrival in Milan led the prefecture of Lecco and the prosecutor’s office, directed by Ezio Domenico Basso, to suspend searches at high altitude with the firefighters and mountain rescue. And it has increasingly directed the investigations towards a voluntary removal excluding even the most tragic hypotheses, such as that of a suicide, or remote and suggestive ideas linked to kidnappings or violent actions.
Among the investigators there is a certain trust about a possible “happy ending” in the next few hours. The impression is that now there is a clear lead and a less murky picture of the boy’s acquaintances. We work in the utmost secrecy but from what has been leaked Edoardo Galli he would no longer be in Milan. Which suggests that there is a precise idea about the place and circumstances in which the 16-year-old spent these last days. AND he wouldn’t be in danger.
Now the police are checking his possible presence on high-speed trains or buses departing from Milan. The family spoke of a convoy headed to Zurich, Switzerland. But this is a circumstance examined with caution. Like the many reports that have arrived in the last few hours, the most detailed from the Bergamo area. And the hypothesis of an escape to Russia.
THE grandparents they are “worried” about Edoardo and fear that he may have “trusted the wrong person”. He left only two passports (Italian and Russian) and a sleeping bag. But it is not known how much money he has available. «Edoardo contact us, he’s coming home. We are here and just waiting to hug you”, yet another tearful appeal from the parents.
