The certainty that the body found this morning in the Natisone river is that of Cristian Molnar it arrived in the afternoon. It was his brother, Radu Petru, who recognized him. Petru, shortly after the tragedy of the three boys, had moved along the Natisone to closely observe the progress of the searches. Searches continued unabated for 20 days, from the day Cristian (25 years old) was carried away by the flood together with his two young friends, Patrizia Cormos (20) And Bianca Doros (23). Her body was the last to be foundin an area that has been visited many times. But as long as the mass of water remained imposing, it was impossible to reach the pool in which he was stuck. The drop in the water level made it resurface, covered by a large boulder and timber.
“Cristian Molnar’s body was underwater, in an area that had been visited several times in recent weeks. It is almost impossible to enter those places, those ravines, when the water has certain flow rates,” he said Michele De Sabatamayor of Premariacco (Udine) to journalists, explaining how the river firefighters found the boy, who had been missing in the river since May 31st.
“It was under a huge rock, inside a tunnel – he added – also covered by wood: finally these extraordinary firefighters managed to notice something underwater, where it has always remained until today”.
The mayor then said that he had made the bell ring death bells and to have set for tomorrow the city mourning in Premariacco: “I inform you that he has yet to be recognized by his brother, but I have been able to see some things: it is him”, the mayor of the small municipality of 4 thousand souls is certain.
”We are closing one of the saddest pages of our small community. Our task was to return a body to the family and today the operation was completed. They tell me, among other things, that today is world hug day”.
The project of a statue of the three embracing boys
As for the project of a statue in homage to the three boys, the mayor of Premariacco, De Sabata, says that he has recently ”completed a conversation with the Romanian community of our municipality which supports me in this project. I’m not interested in making headstones for the fallen but I would like anyone who passes by here to feel the sense of that embrace between the three boys, an extraordinary signal that takes away the heart, the last gift they give us before disappearing into the waves. I want to crystallize that hug.”
The phone found
It has been ongoing since yesterday Udinein the Forensic Computer Science Laboratory, the technical assessment is not repeatable arranged by the PM, Letizia Puppa, on the mobile phone of Patrizia Maria Cormos: it is the only mobile phone found so far on the banks of the river Natisone. A forensic copy of the device is made, including SIM cards and memory cards.
This assessment is necessary – more than 3 weeks after the tragedy – for “avoid the possible deterioration of the mobile phone and its unusability in the event of a trial”.
The consultant appointed by the families’ lawyers
The two families’ lawyers, Gaetano Laghi of the Milan Bar who represents the Molnars, have appointed a joint technical consultant. then Cristian’s brother and parents, and the Doros, Bianca’s parents and Maurizio Stefanizzi, of the Pistoia bar, representing the Cormos family, Patrizia’s.
When a few days ago the brother said “I feel that he is alive”.
The chronology of the tragedy: minute by minute
From the phone it is possible to trace, minute by minute, the chronology of that Friday 31 May, through call times, photo and video metadata, connection to cell phones. The case opened in the Prosecutor’s Office remains for manslaughter against unknown persons.
On the Natisone, however, research continues without success. On average, around fifty people are involved every day. And the profile of the “costs” of the research on the course of the river is also emerging, which have never been interrupted for more than three weeks.
A few days ago, the risk of “another Natisone”: the lucky rescue on the Brenta river, the Drago helicopter saving a boy in the flood of the river: the video
