His name was Pierpaolo Bodini, the 18-year-old who died crushed by an agricultural machinery in Lodi. He worked in the Bassanelli company, where he had joined as soon as he came of age. He was nicknamed “Bodo” and on his social profiles he posted videos of the cars plowing through the fields. He had left the Tosi agricultural institute in Codogno to go to work. He had been hired as an apprentice. The seeder that killed him yesterday had not been used since the autumn. It was up to him to restart her. For this reason he lay down on the ground while his twenty-year-old colleague sat in the driving seat. «A normal maintenance maneuver, but the machine was ready», says Giampaolo Madonini a Republic. Instead, a pin gave way and a wing fell on the head of the 18-year-old who died instantly.
«He was lucky enough to love his job, Pierpaolo was like that», say his family. The Lodi prosecutor’s office led by Maurizio Romanelli seized the seeder. His twenty-year-old colleague is in shock and has been hospitalized. For now there are no people on the register of suspects. While Antonello Risoli, head teacher of the institute attended by Bodo, reflects: «We had spoken with his family and tried to make them understand that the diploma is still important, but Pierpaolo has always been like this. He is passionate about the land, tractors and agricultural techniques. He dreamed of working and as soon as he had the chance he went. It was the life he had chosen. So young… It makes me think that, unlike that boy who died in Latina, Pierpaolo was in good standing. And I don’t know what makes me more angry.” The young mayor Oriana Ghidotti remembers him: “Eighteen years old and living this life is not for everyone, it’s a conscious choice, it makes me even more angry.”
