"I lost a son": Gianni Onorato, owner of Motomar, cries on the phone. Sergio Manuella, 45, worked for him: he had just gotten off his shift in Marina Piccola when, around 2 pm, he was struck by a fatal illness while he was driving his car in viale Poetto , on his way home, in via Stampa.
Manuella had time to pull over and ask for help. A nurse non-commissioned officer and a graduate of the 151st regiment of the "Sassari" Brigade and a carabiniere intervened to help him, free from duty.
The Army soldiers immediately noticed the desperate conditions of that dying man and immediately carried out the first aid maneuvers, alternating in practicing an uninterrupted heart massage until the ambulance arrived.
All useless, unfortunately. The 118 doctors tried to revive him, but they were eventually forced to spread a white sheet over his lifeless body.
Fulminant heart attack is the first diagnosis. A sudden illness that crushed a forty-five year old who had undergone company visits last March: not even a value out of place.
"Sergio used to cycle around the port", Onorato says, "he was always on the move. He managed the mooring system and accounting: he was a very precise one. What happened has no explanation" .
The grief is such that Onorato could decide to break a taboo: “I don't like funeral prayers. This time the bond I had was too strong: I think I'll do it ”.
A family story full of misadventures, that of the victim this morning. The parents, both doctors, died a few years ago within a few months of each other. The uncle, Gianfranco Manuella, passed away in 1981 : a crime story still without solution, for a story that had upset Cagliari.
