A terrible death. Gavina Massida , from Sassari, died on December 15th after being hit by a tram on the tracks in Schaerbeek, Belgium .

According to initial reconstructions, the 57-year-old had just gotten out of a taxi and was about to reach her home when she was hit , in a tragedy that local authorities are still investigating.

The woman had just arrived from Sardinia where she was supposed to return on December 23 in time to celebrate the holidays with her family, her father Giovanni, her mother Monica, of German origins, and her brother Walter, well-known people in Li Punti, a peripheral neighborhood of Sassari.

"Gavina had been living in Belgium for 30 years - says Don Costantino, parish priest of the Pio X church in Li Punti where the funeral will be held this afternoon at 4 pm - she was a very jovial and outgoing person ". And it was in Belgium that the woman had her daughter, Monica, 24, with whom she worked together in the same restaurant . "She knew four languages and could have worked at the European Parliament but she preferred contact with people and being together".

Gavina's father had also emigrated in his time, later returning to the island where he was born to work in a construction company.

Tonight's ceremony will be held with the urn containing the ashes of the 57-year-old - a secular celebration was held in Belgium - which arrived in the middle of the Christmas holidays. "We decided to have the funeral today - continues the parish priest - and not on the 26th."

Many messages of condolence for the woman and her family who will gather in church in the afternoon supported in their grief by the many inhabitants of the neighborhood.