It will be an autopsy and DNA examination to give the official status, but the rescue teams that for over a week have plumbed the banks of the Nevola river , in the province of Ancona devastated by the flood that hit the Marches last September 15, are unfortunately certain that the little body found in a field, disfigured and covered with mud , on Friday, is that of Mattia Luconi .
The 8-year -old boy snatched away from the arms of his mother - the pharmacist of Sardinian origin Silvia Mereu - by the fury of the water. A fury that dragged the baby away for 13 km , up to a private land, 200 meters from the riverbed, where, finally, he was found.
"We will have a grave to cry on," said the mother. "The hopes are over" , the bitter and distraught comment of his father, Tiziano , who then also published a photo of him on a Vespa with little Mattia, accompanied from a touching message: “ We will return to ride a Vespa and throw kisses, Mattia greets everyone. We love you ".
Great pain also in Urzulei , Silvia Mereu's hometown, where the family upset by the tragedy has relatives and friends.