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Many in the village, in Barasso, knew him: running shoes and tracksuit. Thousands of kilometers travel per year. Fatigue and satisfaction of a sport that Mario Farsetti loved: He loved running through the woods, even the most difficult ones like the uphill “trails”, which he often combined with cycling and swimming.
The 61-year-old triathlete, a surveyor with wife and daughter, lost his life while doing it a running along the paths of which the Campo dei Fiori massif is rich.
But the unpredictability of atmospheric events did not allow this man of mature age with the physique of a young athlete to escape. who knew the area well.
That is why everyone in town wonders how such a tragedy could have happened. Asks the mayor of Barasso Antonio Braida who followed the history of the investigation and was informed this morning of the discovery. The neighbor and lover of forest trails, a friend of the family, also asks Emanuele Crivellaro: “When I found out about a person lost in the forest, I never imagined it was Mario,” he explained over the phone in a voice full of despair and still in shock at the news.
«Mario was a top-level athlete, a great person that I have known since our children’s kindergarten, and then I became friends, as often happens. We crossed path 10 as many athletes do, and it is really difficult to believe this destination, which happened in an area that I knew very well.
Farsetti entered the amateur category of Gavirate Athletics: the athletes who have met him speak of a highly educated person, passionate about sport but also about the territory.
Knowledge of the places and great physical preparation which, however, were not sufficient qualities to prevent the tragedy, apparently dictated by the sudden rise in the level of the river Tinella: in the area around 19 on Thursdays are 360mm of water fell in just over an hour.
An event that occurs according to the experts of the Campo dei Fiori Park once every 400 years. The Varese prosecutor ordered an autopsy of the body.
In dynamic The carabinieri of the Varese company conducted surveys linked to the hypothesis of the death of accidental fact– An oversight, a fall into a prohibitive weather condition that was probably the determining factor in this case.
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