Only silence and respect for Mattia Miscali and his family. An unreal silence, a crowd moved for the last farewell to the young life cut short on the asphalt . For today, in conjunction with the boy's funeral , the mayor of Villagrande, Alessio Seoni, has proclaimed city mourning . From the altar of the church of Villanova Strisaili, dedicated to San Michele Arcangelo, Father Mauro Isacchi, with whom Don Ernest Beroby concelebrated, addressed the young man's family, his father Marco, his two younger brothers and, in particular mother, Roberta Cocco. In the homily he proposed a reflection starting from the parable from the Gospel of Luke which tells of Jesus' passage to Nain and the resurrection of the only son of a widow. " Don't throw your tears of pain in the mud, but give them to someone to transform them into tears of hope ", were some of the words uttered by Father Mauro. At the end of the mass, a long procession accompanied the transfer of the coffin to the cemetery of the hamlet, with the condolence rite continuing for two hours and ending when it was already dark.
Many young and very young people, friends and acquaintances, who between yesterday and today have expressed pain and emotion, also through their presence at the exact point of the accident, on the stretch of the Orientale, near Tortolì, where the car in which Mattia Miscali was travelling, he first hit the head of the guardrail, on the road opposite to the direction of travel, and then flew into the embankment for several metres. For the twenty-year-old, who was traveling on the passenger side, it was fatal when he was thrown from the sedan, which was left without the right door. Mattia Miscali died instantly.
Meanwhile, Gabriele Olianas, the 19-year-old driver of the Volkswagen Golf in which the five boys were traveling, remains hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Brotzu hospital in Cagliari . The young man's condition is stationary, but doctors still keep the prognosis confidential. The other three young people involved in the accident have been discharged from Lanusei hospital. They were in the back seat of the car and suffered minor bruises in the impact.