The sixteen-year-old who disappeared on Thursday 21 March from Colico, in the Lecco area, was found on Friday morning in the area of Milan’s central station. The young man was identified by Polfer officers.
The boy was inside the station area. He was recognized around 7.40am on Friday 28 March by a woman who saw him near a ticket machine. The passenger compared the image spread in recent days on social media and in the press, then she called a railway employee who was nearby. At that point two officers from the Milan railway police approached the young man who immediately confirmed his details. A journalist also recognized him at the station. According to initial information, the sixteen-year-old had just purchased a train ticket to return home to his parents in Colico.
His health conditions are good. According to the investigators, the young man was therefore returning home but would not have spent his last days in Milan, where he instead returned only to take the train and return to his parents. The Lecco Carabinieri and the Prosecutor’s Office are carrying out checks on the places where the student spent the last week and on the people who may have given him hospitality. The boy is already returning to his family’s home.
Around 10 in the morning, the student hugged his parents again in the Milan Polfer offices, in the Central station. The youngest sister was also with mom and dad. According to what has transpired in recent days, the 16-year-old would have moved towards Eastern Europe, in various countries (Slovenia, Croatia and North Macedonia). On the night of March 27, he was also checked by the Croatian police at the Karasovici-Sutorina border with Montenegro. It is unclear what his final destination was.
“I thank the police and all the people who helped us during this terrible week.” These are the first words of the 16-year-old student’s father at the Central station. The parent spoke briefly to journalists before entering the Polfer offices with his wife and their other daughter: «I’m out of tears – he told reporters -. Where did you spend the last 8 days? Now it’s the thing that interests us least.” The grandfather also spoke on TV: «Now we will try to understand the reasons for the gesture and we will help him to resume his activity as a student and to reintegrate into the school where he was happy, he did well. As we have always done, we will be patient and attentive grandparents to his development as a man. I feel happy. I’m very happy, I’m waiting for it. I can’t wait to hug him.”
«The country is celebrating, it’s the best news we could have received before
Holy Easter”. Even Monica Gilardi, mayor of Colico, expresses her relief at the discovery of the young man. «We can only be happy, Colico is rallying around the family», she concluded.
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