Many wanted to say their last goodbyes to Giuseppe Santoni , the 76-year-old fisherman from Castelsardo , who was lost at sea on December 24 and was found dead on Christmas day . They had found him lying on the rocks at Ampurias, near Lu Bagnu.
The body had been returned to the family members after the results of the autopsy had ascertained death from cardiac arrest . In the parish church of Sant'Antonio Abate were present his wife Anna with their daughters Alessandra and Patrizia, friends, relatives and many acquaintances. A man loved and known by many who remember him as he used to go fishing alone.
During the holidays, the tragedy struck the Castellanese community . Rescue was mobilized immediately on the afternoon of Christmas Eve after the alarm of family members . The 76-year-old had gone out aboard his small boat last Saturday afternoon.
The next morning the group of Civil Protection volunteers had found him without clothes on the cliff in Ampurias. He had tried to save himself, trying to swim to the nearest shore .