Bad weather, dead sisters in the camp. The father: I just want to take my children from here

Massa Carrara, August 31, 2020 – “I just want to take my children from here, I just want this”: the father of the two little sisters, Malak and Jannat Lassiri, aged 14 and 3, died in a tent at the “Verde Mare” campsite de Marina di Massa, crushed by a poplar, which fell during a strong wave of bad weather.

The father and mother, the construction worker, his carer, Moroccans living in Turin, stayed all afternoon with the bodies of their daughters along with a dozen relatives. They joined them in the morning, to comfort the immense tragedy that struck them. “You can’t die from a treeSays a guy, outside the morgue. All together they also returned to the camp to take some personal effects that they left in the tent crushed by the tree. Another tough moment, only relieved by the outbreak of shared history with uncles and cousins, who have also been in Italy for some time.

There are very few tourists left at the campsite, who fled due to the second wave of storms but also because they reached the end of their vacation, which ended in August. The Lassiri family is in a hotel located in the municipality of Massa. They will stay there “as long as they need it,” said Mayor Francesco Persiani who proclaimed the mourning the city throughout Monday. They are followed by the Red Cross. Especially the girls’ mother, who is still in shock, needs help. They brought warm clothes and toys for one of the boys, who is 9 years old and was unharmed. You also live for another sister of the two victims, aged 19, also unharmed by the collapse of the poplar. Medical and psychological support was provided.

Investigations to establish the fall dynamics of the plant. The owner of the Verde Mare campsite has been called back by the carabinieri, Amilcare Dal Pino, recognized in the area and with experience in the sector. He was resentful after a first interview yesterday, always as a person informed of the facts. The prosecutor on the merits of the investigation states that “for the moment, no judicial act has been notified to anyone. Be autopsy in the next few days in Lucca. Tomorrow the formal assignment to a agronomist Forestry for a prospection on the poplar: it will serve to define “the state of the tree and whether or not it was foreseeable that it could fall in case of bad weather”, according to the chief prosecutor of Massa Carrara Piero Capizzoto.

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