It must have been a happy day, spent with friends celebrating the carnival.
Instead, it turned into a day of mourning and pain for the entire community of Acre, a town in the Cosenza area.
A 17-year-old boy died falling from the float he was on after taking part in a carnival parade.
His body was noticed by some motorists yesterday evening, on the side of the provincial road that connects the hamlet of San Giacomo D'Acri with San Cosmo Albanese.
A vehicle of the firefighters of the Corigliano-Rossano detachment was immediately stopped, returning from another intervention.
The police immediately called the ambulance but there was nothing more they could do for the boy.
According to the first investigations carried out by the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di San Marco Argentano with the coordination of the Public Prosecutor of Castrovillari, the boy was on a wagon which, after the parade in San Demetrio Corone, was returning to the village together with a couple of friends.
Perhaps a jolt of the vehicle, perhaps a distraction, but the boy would have lost his balance, falling to the ground and hitting his head violently.
No one noticed what happened.
The friends who were with him were probably on another side of the wagon and even the driver of the tractor pulling the wagon did not see the boy fall as he continued on.
To definitively clarify the dynamics of the accident, the Castrovillari public prosecutor's office ordered the seizure of the tractor, to allow for further investigations.
The carabinieri arrived at an initial reconstruction on the basis of the testimonies collected and the findings carried out, also with the intervention of the coroner.
The body is now available to the Judicial Authority for legal investigations in order to reconstruct the dynamics of what happened.
