Little Nicola Tanturli was found three kilometers from home. the child of less than two years, who disappeared the night before from his home in Campanara, an isolated hamlet of Palazzuolo sul Senio. According to preliminary information, some people engaged in the research have heard moans from a slope. It was him. The baby is slightly injured, but in good health. “We are happy for the child and his family – said the prefect of Florence Alessandra Guidi – and we are grateful to the firefighters, the police, civil protection and the many volunteers who have engaged in research” .
The missing child has been found in Mugello
The images of the discovery of Nicola Tanturli, the two-year-old boy who disappeared from home
by Romina Marceca
Mugello, a child who disappeared in the night in the woods
by Luca Serranò
The disappearance and the searches
A sigh of relief for everyone after two nights. A whole day and night of sweeping searches with hundreds of volunteers, molecular dogs, helicopters, in an inaccessible and isolated area of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines where the child’s family lives. On Monday evening his mother Giuseppina Paladino had put him to bed and then went to the stable. Her husband, Leonardo was not at home, when he returned the two had dinner and, before going to bed, they went to check Nicola’s room. The child was not in his bed, however. The parents immediately started looking for him, but they gave the alarm to the carabinieri only the next morning. Nine hours later.
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The finding
It was a reporter who found him: as he went up to the house he would have heard some moans and noises. Giuseppe Di Tommaso, from Live Life. The child was at the bottom of an escarpment, close to the road and tens of meters deep and was then recovered by a carabiniere who lowered himself into the ravine. “I heard his lament and I understood immediately. An indescribable emotion, a miracle”. The little one has already seen his parents and was hugged by Parà Leonardo and his mother Pina. “Fortunately, he’s fine.” The child was seen by the doctor present with the rescuers and decided to transport him by helicopter rescue to the Meyer pediatric hospital in Florence.
The protagonists
Lieutenant Ciccarelli, commander of the Carabinieri station in Scarperia, dropped to 25 meters, identifying the little one who immediately asked for his mother. The same lieutenant brought him back to the dirt road and gave him back to the woman. “The child was found by Giuseppe Di Tommaso, one of our correspondents – explained Alberto Matano, host of the RaiUno broadcast – it was there that he was shooting with the crew imagining the path that the child could have taken from home. only because the crew had stayed behind, he heard some moans he leaned over and found the baby in an escarpment. At that point, not taking the phone Di Tommaso ran back, called the carabinieri and helped them get him out of the embankment . I felt him amid the emotions, tears and joy, he called me and said: ‘He is alive, he is alive!’ “.
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