Following the tragic death of Riccardo Boni, buried alive in a hole he had dug himself on the beach at Montalto, the Civitavecchia Prosecutor's Office has placed his father under investigation.
Repubblica reported, calling the registration for the alleged crime of manslaughter "a necessary act," "not because there are any suspicions against him, not because anyone actually accuses him of something. But because the law, faced with such an absurd tragedy, requires a formal process."
Riccaro Boni had arrived at the California Campground with his family—father, mother, and three siblings—last Thursday. Tragedy struck on the second day of their vacation. The 17-year-old apparently left the resort's beach to dig a hole on a public beach right next to his parents'. One of the most likely investigative hypotheses is that the boy, having reached a depth of over five feet, decided to create a sort of tunnel to connect to a hole he would later dig.
But when he began digging horizontally, the sand gave way, swamping him as he lay, preventing him from getting up . At first, his brothers were also near the hole he had dug, but at a certain point they disappeared. It was the five-year-old who alerted his desperate mother, who was searching for her missing son, repeatedly saying, "Riccardo is under the sand."
Only after the gruesome discovery did it become clear that the 5-year-old was the only witness to the tragedy, and it was he who led rescuers to the spot where his older brother was playing. Initially, however, the child's words were ignored. After all, in those frantic moments, as everyone was busy searching for the boy, the boy's words were not given any weight. It took the rescuers 40 minutes to determine where the 17-year-old was: a time that may have cost Riccardo his life. Initial reconstructions suggest that Riccardo's mother, not seeing her son in the early afternoon, first contacted the campsite staff, and only then did the search begin. When the 5-year-old pointed out the location, a frantic scramble to dig and extract the body from the sand began, but by then it was too late.
(Unioneonline)