Friends and relatives of Miriam Janale, the 23-year-old driving the Fiat Punto who crashed into a guardrail on Saturday night on the Palermo-Sciacca road, causing the death of Miriam’s 16-month-old son, Abd Rahim Gharsallah, and 20-year-old Selma, cannot find peace. El Mouakit. “That child was everything to Miriam – we read in the article by Virgilio Fagone for the Giornale di Sicilia – she took care of him and always took him with her. She knows she has lost him and she was so desperate that the doctors had to sedate her.”
The blood alcohol level
The police’s investigations led to an initial conclusion: that night Miriam was driving with a blood alcohol level higher than the permitted limit. Toxicological tests carried out in hospital would have ascertained the presence of a rate of 1.35 micrograms per liter, while the limit is 0.50. The woman is hospitalized in a medically induced coma at the Civic hospital and her condition remains serious. Also traveling in the car was 21-year-old Chiara Irmanà, who was eight months pregnant. The girl was injured but her condition is not serious.
The cursed night
“The girls had gone out to spend the Saturday evening in a club in the Piazza Sant’Anna area – says Zainep Rabeh, who now lives in Germany and is married to a cousin of the husband of the young woman who was driving the Punto -. Miriam was always very attentive to the child and, from what we learned, she had not drank too much. They tell us that the child was crying during the return journey and that he was picked up by Miriam’s niece, sitting in the front passenger seat. Miriam would have lost control of the vehicle due to a banal distraction: the girl behind her started talking to her, she turned around and in her movement she also turned the steering wheel, ending up against the guardrail . It was a tragedy. Miriam had informed her husband, who was waiting for her after finishing work at the restaurant, of her imminent return to town. But she didn’t arrive home. She lost her beloved child, whom she cared for and who she always carried with her. We rally around family members in these terrible moments of pain.”
