She had fled the war, the bombing of Odessa, her city. She died on the asphalt of Turin, killed by a car that hit her while she was crossing a pedestrian crossing to catch the bus and go to school.
Her name was Emilia Maidaska, she was 16 years old and a Ukrainian refugee, the girl hit in Corso Casale, a few steps from the hill. It was a few minutes before 7 when Emilia left the association headquarters where she was staying. Like every morning, the young student had to reach the stop that took her to the centre, in Via Della Rocca, to the Aldo Passoni Art School, where she attended her third year, in section G. She was hit by a Volkswagen Bora , which was traveling in the direction of San Mauro, in the Turin area.
The first to help was the driver, a fifty-year-old. But for Emilia there was nothing left to do. According to an initial reconstruction, the heavy rain could be one of the causes of the fatal accident, also because the car was not going that fast and at that time the area was still dark.
“I didn't see her,” the desperate motorist repeated to the officers . Emilia lived in a community for minors, within a Municipality project. «We are shocked. She was like a daughter to us", they say from the association, then ask for silence, out of respect for their pain.
The student's mother remained in Odessa, while her father works in Germany, in Berlin. But in Turin the sixteen-year-old was not alone: she had managed to make herself loved by the educators, by the other young people in the community and by her high school classmates. The photos published on his Facebook profile tell of his great passion for drawing . A real talent, immortalized in the photographic shots, where the girl can be seen drawing, on her inseparable album, corners of the city, sitting along the Po river, immersed in that tranquility that she needed to forget the horrors of the war.
(Unioneonline/L)