«I heard inhuman screams. Behind the car there was a girl running and screaming: “Call the police immediately. Can’t you see that there is a person under the car?”. There are a few minutes left until 10pm on Sunday. In via Mercantini, in Bovisa, a blue Ford Fiesta enters the road turning from via Ricotti. On the strips there are two Italian girls aged 29 and 23. They get overwhelmed. The first is thrown away; the second remains stuck in the left front wheel. «The jeans were all torn, the t-shirt in shreds. But the thing that impressed me most was the face: it was human suffering, a mask of blood.”
Mattia D’Oca, 33 years old, is in front of the TV in his house on the first floor of via Mercantini when he hears a bang at the end of the street. «I looked out on the balcony. I saw the girl’s friend chasing the Ford.” The black and white Nike «Dunks» emerge at the rear wheel. «You could only see from the ankles down. The car continued to move forward. He must have done 20 km/h. She tried to move her feet, while she tried to hold on to the car door with one hand »continues Mattia. «I recovered the house keys and her phone that had fallen on the street and handed them over to the police in via de Capitani».
It is there, in fact, that the crazy race of over 300 meters of the Ford Fiesta ends, at the intersection with Piazza Bausan, where there is a passing police car. «People in the area took to the streets and crowded around. One of them, after seeing that scene, approached the driver in a threatening manner.” At the wheel of the car is a 20-year-old Italian, newly licensed, who lives in the area. He is loaded onto the Volante to avoid being lynched by the people gathered in the square. He will then test positive for alcohol and will be reported for driving while intoxicated. The results of the drug test are awaited.
The calls to 118 arrive one after the other. Meanwhile, some people help the police to forcefully lift the Fiesta to free the young woman, a “makeup artist”. Giulia, a passerby, hands a blanket “used for her daughter” to the officers to swab the wounds. The 23-year-old loses a lot of blood. But she is conscious. It is Giulia who calls her parents. Meanwhile the boy comes down. He puts his hands in his hair, his mother also arrives on site. «You said you didn’t notice it», explains Mattia. The investigations were entrusted to cast iron. «I didn’t sleep all night», concludes Mattia. «When I arrived in Bausan square, the girl was dying. But she blinked. She gave me hope.” The 23-year-old’s friend goes to San Carlo for bruises that heal in seven days, while the girl stuck under the Ford ends up urgently at Niguarda. She is now hospitalized in intensive care with a reserved prognosis. His life is not in dangerdespite serious injuries to his head, pelvis and limbs.
