"Let's laugh Mattia back to his mother as soon as possible"

   "Let's laugh Mattia back to his mother as soon as possible".

The appeal, through ANSA, to the "world of rescuers comes from the mayor of San Lorenzo in Campo (Ancona), Davide Dellonti where the 8-year-old boy, missing since the evening of September 15, lives with his mother Maria Silvia Mereu, 42 years old, pharmacist, now hospitalized in Senigallia. Mattia Luconi was in the car with his mother, around 8 pm, returning home from his maternal grandmother's house, when the fury of Nevola overwhelmed the Mercedes which was later found further downstream of the watercourse in the appurtenances of a farm.

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Mattia, torn from his mother's arms.

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   Maria Silvia was found and rescued two hours later, she was unable to hold back Mattia who allegedly clung to a plant but is missing.

The day before the accident, Mattia had enrolled Mattia in class III A of the local Primary school.

"The fact that Mattia is missing - tells us the mayor of a" good child, who had a gesture of friendship for everyone "- is news that has deeply shocked our community of San Lorenzo in Campo where he resides and attends school. primary, now closed, where it is well-liked and loved by everyone, schoolmates, staff and teachers. I make mine, both personal and for the family, as I was able to tell my mother, the appeal that has already been launched to everything the world of rescuers, civil protection, firefighters:

   "I would like to overturn the world but I can't, the appeal to rescuers is to find it, give it back to us".

He says it to ANSA, with the voice eight from emotion, of Alessandro Fontana, Mattia's uncle.

A "very difficult moment for the family - adds Alessandro - Now there are many people who help in the rescue and we hope for the best. But it has started to rain again, one misfortune on top of another".

Since Mattia is missing, who after the separation of his parents lives with his mother Silvia, adds Fontana, "we don't sleep, we don't eat. I would like to turn the world upside down but I can't".

Mattia, says his uncle, "he is a sweet, affectionate boy. He is my nephew, I love him like a son. He often stays with us, we also live close by".

"Mattia does the things that children his age do: he goes to school,

he was enrolled in the third grade, video games, cell phones, TV programs and in particular cartoons like Peppa Pig.

But here you live in the countryside and spend a lot of time playing outdoors "." Waiting wears you out, - Mattia's uncle resumes -, not knowing is heavy, perhaps worse than lack.

We haven't eaten or sleep for days.

The appeal to rescuers is 'find it, give it back to us' ".