The report to the fire brigade arrived this morning, around 10: "There is a body floating in the Adda, in the locality of San Pietro in Berbenno, near the Libera pastry shop", said two fishermen.
The corpse was fished out right in the indicated point and, with the passing of the hours, the possibility that that young woman is the 15-year-old Hasfa, swallowed by the river last September 1, while with her cousin and other family members, was becoming more and more concrete. Bartesaghi Park, in Sondrio, where he resided.
The girl has never been found again, despite days and days of intense searches, even the "massive" ones, arranged by the prefect Salvatore Pasquariello.
And although every day, since he had returned from Morocco shortly after the tragedy, father Hamed Ben Duod, 37, a worker in a sawmill, was also looking for her, who reached the Adda by bicycle and often dived there, swimming in the hope of find it stranded somewhere in the very muddy stream.
Now the possible, tragic turning point: the body fished out in the Adda today has characteristics quite similar to the description of the adolescent, also as regards the height, and there is full compatibility between the places of disappearance and those of the discovery.
There are no reports of other missing young people in Valtellina.
The State Police is dealing with the case and, at the moment, the police just say, prudently, that scientific investigations are underway.
But doubts about identity are very few.
