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28 December 2019 "I go there every day. Next to that guardrail full of flowers. I sit and think of Gaia. My friend who is no longer there. In our days together. And I reflect on how careless we boys are. Why yes , I also crossed Corso Francia at night, running, outside the pedestrian crossings and with the green traffic light for cars. Risking my life ". Cecilia, 16, a friend and the same age as one of the two dead girls hit by a car, admits that crossing at that dangerous point is a habit.

Dangerous games
"Yes, unfortunately. I did it too. Take a run, climb over the guardrail and run as fast as you can on the other side." Why? "Maybe because we are 16 years old? To hurry to reach your friends, not to be late on the way back home. Or maybe and I know it's stupid, because it's fun. You always think that if you look right to the right and on the left, and run fast, on the other side you will get there. " A challenge? "No, a lightness, a gamble - Cecilia replies - So far none of my friends had had an accident". But Gaia and Camilla have died.

Three families destroyed
"A chain of misfortunes. That involved three families. Even Pietro's. It was true, it was going fast, but it was raining hard and nobody on Corso Francia respects the speed limits. We who live in this neighborhood know it." Will something change? "I hope so. You can't die like that. When my mother woke me up that morning, telling me that Gaia had died overwhelmed by a car on Corso Francia, I immediately understood where the accident had occurred. I trembled. It could have happened I would like nobody to remove the flowers and banners from that guardrail anymore. "

Red light
And then there is the little game of the red traffic light. To reveal this disturbing "pastime" done by some young people right in the area of ​​the mortal investment of gaia and Camilla is a small Roman businessman, father of a 16 year old girl, who entrusted the messenger with his worried reflections. "They call it the little game of the red traffic light and when my daughter and her friend explained it to me after the death of Camilla and Gaia, I shivered. It's about crossing the two carriageways of Corso Francia fast while for pedestrians it is red and for the cars that dart is green, challenging the fate. A crazy game on Saturday night and not only, in vogue among the very young people of Ponte Milvio. They do it to make themselves great also recovering with smartphones to create stories on social networks that then they cancel within 24 hours ".

Domiciliary and interrogation for the driver of the SUV
Yesterday the last earthly greeting to Gaia and Camilla. Many friends, classmates and thousands of people wanted to say goodbye to the two 16-year-olds hit and killed on the night of December 21st by an SUV while crossing Corso Francia on foot. Driving the car, 20-year-old Pietro Genovese, son of director Paolo Genovese, for whom house arrest has been ordered and who will be interrogated by magistrates on 2 January.

Yesterday the funeral
Two white coffins in the church of the Precious Blood of the Fleming hill. To celebrate the funeral don Matteo Botto who had words not really tender for the very young (also he) driver of the car. Camilla's parents, Cristiana and Marino Romagnoli and Gaia's, Gabriella and Edward von Freymann, thanked those present for the affection and support shown. In front of the parish there is also a banner with "Hello Angels" written on it. As a sign of mourning, the neighborhood merchants lowered the shutters. Many wreaths of flowers, along with poinsettias outside the church, while via Flaminia was closed to traffic by city police during the funeral.

The songs of Jova and Tiziano
At the end of the mass, a great applause accompanied the exit of the coffins from the church on the notes of one of the favorite songs of the two friends, 'A Te' by Jovanotti. Followed by 'I love you' by Tiziano Ferro. Some friends of the girls brought flowers to the accident site, while the companions of the young girls of the De Sanctis high school brought photos and tickets of their friends. Journalists and cameras, however, remained outside the church to respect the will of the girls' families.

The pain of the parents
Parents of teenagers ask for discretion and time to metabolize such pain. "The death of a child is so unnatural as to have made our condition unspeakable, it is literally something that cannot be said," said Gabriella's parents Gabriella and Edward Von Freymann with a note. "This is also why we have not spoken to anyone so far and today we ask for respect for our pain and our silence. When we find the right words we will speak. For the moment, we invite prudence and scrupulousness. Gaia was full of joie de vivre, but she was also mature and responsible. We miss her very much. "