The little red light game “They call it the little game of the red traffic light and when my daughter and her friend explained it to me after the death of Camilla and Gaia, I shivered. It’s about crossing the two carriageways of Corso Francia fast while for pedestrians it is red and for the cars that dart is green, challenging the fate. A crazy game on Saturday night and not only, in vogue among the very young people of Ponte Milvio. They do it to make themselves great also recovering with smartphones, creating stories on social networks that then they cancel within 24 hours “. M. L., 43, a small entrepreneur from Labaro interviewed by the newspaper Il Messaggero says so.
Gaia’s friend: “We always cross like this” “Yes, I also crossed Corso Francia at night, running, outside the pedestrian crossings and with the green traffic light for cars. Risking my life”. Cecilia says it, a friend of Gaia, also 16 years old. In the pages of Repubblica Cecilia she explains what she and other boys do: “Take a run, climb over the guardrail and run as fast as you can on the other side”. And this even if a few meters ahead there are the strips and a traffic light that can make you cross safely. So why do it? “Maybe because we are sixteen? To hurry up to reach your friends, not to be late on the way back home. Or maybe and I know it’s stupid, because it’s fun – says Cecilia again -. You always think that if you look right and left and run fast on the other side you will get there. ” Instead the girl denies the existence of a game, a challenge: “No, it’s a lightness, a gamble. So far none of my friends had had an accident”.
Pietro Genovese’s friend: “Impossible to avoid them” That night, in the passenger seat of the car driven by Pietro Genovese, there was another boy, Davide. He is also the one to provide important details for the ongoing investigation. “We had a couple of glasses that evening, no drugs, but it was impossible to avoid the two girls,” says interviewed by the messenger. “Those two girls suddenly came out, running hand in hand. Believe me, it was impossible to avoid them. It was raining, it was dark, but I remember perfectly what happened: I saw two silhouettes appear out of nowhere and then the body of one of them bounce off the hood, “says David. The 20 year old student of Economics of Parioli tells in tears what he remembers: “We couldn’t nail in the middle of the road. From the accident to the moment we stopped, 5-10 seconds had passed. I got out of the car and I saw the body of one of the two girls on the ground, I approached to hear the beat, it did not move. A little further on I realized that the other girl was also on the asphalt. Immediately after me I got off Pietro and Edoardo. The cars kept walking, I remember seeing one, maybe two cars running over them again. ” A circumstance that however seems to have been excluded from the autopsy.
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