The search for the noncommissioned officer lost at sea continues: anger on social networks over a video of the child saved

The search for the Coast Guard noncommissioned officer, Aurelio Visalli, 35, married and father of two children, lasted all day along the coast between Barcelona and Capo Milazzo, lost at sea during the attempt to rescue to a 15-year-old boy, who risked drowning for a trick.

Military companions, on duty in the Milazzo Coast Guard, patrolled the stretch of sea until late at night, with the help of helicopters to locate the man, who could barely resist the 7-meter-high waves, where two The boys had dived down to skeet range in Milazzo. The first 13-year-old was saved immediately, returning to shore, while the second 15-year-old remained at the mercy of the waves for more than an hour. He was only saved by following the indications that came from the beach, where the first rescuers took them, grabbing onto a buoy and then finding a way to take advantage of the right moment to get out of this dangerous situation. During these agitated phases, another tragedy probably occurred, that of the NCO, who in an attempt to rescue the boy, was sucked into a wave, which swept him out to sea. The investigations have been concentrated mainly in the Tono area, where the current often carries what it finds in the sea, but there are still no traces of the man, nor, unfortunately, of his body.

In social networks, many expressed their anger after the publication of a video of the boy from the Milazzo hospital where he was treated, in which the sacrifice of the noncommissioned officer Visalli is not mentioned, who threw himself into the sea in an attempt to save him, without thinking about it. . at the risk of his own life.