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Every summer they came back on vacation to Morocco, your country of origin. But not this year. Covid had changed its plans. In the end they had decided to spend their vacation in Italy. And they had postponed their return one day due to bad weather. A series of fatal coincidences that destroyed a family. Fatima and Hicham Lassiri and his children were in Marina di Massa. But right here, in the camp they had chosen, yesterday morning gusts of strong wind and rain knocked down a tree that collapsed in the tent where Malak Lassiri, 14, and Jannat, 2 and a half, slept.
The youngest died instantly, her sister shortly after hospitalization. “They were supposed to be back on Saturday, but they had decided to wait a couple more days,” say distressed neighbors. It seems to be due to bad weather. Malak was a judoka, a student at the Jigoro Kano school in via Valdellatorre, she had achieved several results in her category and intended to follow in the footsteps of her 19-year-old older sister, who qualified for the regional youth judo competitions with the same sports club .
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The Lassiri family, in addition to the parents and the two deceased daughters, were also the other two sons, aged 19 and 9, who had left for about ten days. They had used the vacation voucher. “We didn’t know they were going to Tuscany,” say the neighbors, in Turin, where they lived. “They always went alone to Morocco. They left in mid-July to meet relatives in France and then return to Morocco. But this year they had chosen the Verde Mare campsite for their holidays.
The Massa and Carrara prosecutor has opened an investigation about the collapse of the tree. First act, the judicial seizure of the area of the accident, the fallen tree and the tent as well as the objects. Some branches of other trees were cut for fear of further collapse. The Prosecutor’s Office will appoint a technical consultant, an expert agronomist, capable of verifying the conditions of the poplar tree uprooted by the tornado. We try to understand if that tree should be cut down by the owners of the campsite because it is dangerous.
The Moroccan family had come to Tuscany a week ago for a beach vacation. The vacationers who had the bungalow next to the one where the girls’ parents slept are shocked. “Fate is truly cruel. If the curtain had been only a meter away, the tornado would not have overwhelmed it. The noise was loud. We thought it was the hood of a car closing but then we heard screaming. We could think of everything except falling from a tree, when we heard screams, we didn’t do it to see what had happened.
In the tent there were seven, the three sisters, the brother, the parents and an uncle. The youngest girl was seriously injured and died despite resuscitation attempts. The 14-year-old sister died at 11:30 a.m. after being hospitalized. “We tried everything to save her, but her condition seemed desperate immediately,” explained the doctors at the Massa hospital. The parents authorized the removal of the organs.
Yesterday afternoon a message of condolence arrived from the mayor of Turin Chiara hangers. “They were our fellow citizens. A tragedy that shocks our entire community, in whose name I express a deep closeness to the family. The closeness to the family of the two girls was also shown by the President of the Region, Enrico Rossi. “A wave of bad weather typical of the summer period and especially of the summers in recent years has hit the whole of Tuscany, which has especially insisted on the north-west of the region and that we continue to monitor carefully at this time.” The first Minister Giuseppe Conte he in turn sent a message of condolence via Twitter. “The tragic disappearance of the two sisters who were on vacation in Marina di Massa deeply saddens us. A vacation turned into a tragedy. A strong and touching hug for the parents and their families.
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