Safiya, who died a year after being crushed by her grandfather’s car in Ponso: We hear the screams

Is in mourning Ponso, in Padua, for the death of the girl Safiya Bouchakoul, the one and a half year old girl crushed by her grandfather’s car who was backing up in the backyard without noticing the presence of the granddaughter. A great tragedy for this family, originally from Morocco but living in Veneto for years, to the point that the victim’s mother was transferred to the Schiavonia hospital after the accident because got sick, but discharged shortly after. According to an initial reconstruction of the events, Safiya was playing in the courtyard of the Via Santa Lucía when her 55-year-old grandfather ran over her while performing a maneuver with his car, a Vw passat. The 118 and the rescue helicopter arrived at the scene, but unfortunately there was nothing else to do: he died instantly.

The little boy’s grandfather was sued for involuntary manslaughter by the Carabinieri de Este. The man immediately realized what happened and called 118, while the mother of the little girl left the house, remembered by the screams of despair from the man. “I was here at the house when the accident happened, but I have not felt bumps or brakes. Only the cries of the mother, “said a neighbor to the Gazzettino, He added: “I ran out, but the family had already called for help. The rescue helicopter landed right here in front,” he added, pointing to the grass field across the street. Grandpa was always nice to her, took her in his arms. You could tell he loved her. “The military, who were put under seizure the car, investigations have begun to rebuild the dynamic of the accident. In fact, there are many questions that you are trying to answer in these hours. First of all, it is still unclear if the girl was already in the yard or if she had walked out the front door and stopped right behind her grandfather’s car. This is an aspect that the investigators are trying to verify and that could lead the magistrate to hypothesize a responsibility also towards the parents, two thirty-somethings who have lost their only daughter. “It is something frightening. As a father I cannot imagine the pain that one feels over the death of a son,” was finally the comment of the mayor, Matteo Chiodin.