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01 August 2020 "A woman set herself on fire and while I was passing with my wife I immediately got out of the car and tried to put out what I could with a gym towel. The lady burned in the field opposite and I was the only one who trying to do something. On the other hand, about twenty people with their cell phones were shooting the scene ".This is the testimony of the man who rescued the woman who set herself on fire this morning in Crema, according to what the mayor Stefania Bonaldi reports in a post on Fb. "After minutes and minutes - says the man - one approached with a fire extinguisher who did not know what to do. I turned everything off with the fire extinguisher. The lady I think is dead, in the end the rescue arrived after 15 minutes .. I also tried 113-112 and I was on hold. I don't know if she would have been saved. But the people with the cell phone from the parking lot stunned me. There is talk of a human being, but what did those people with the cell phone do? if I had spent a couple of minutes before, maybe I would have saved you. I am writing to you because you are the first citizen of Crema and this event happened in your city, Nostra. I know you can do nothing ... but I thought of you as the first citizen to warn you first. I wrote to you because maybe some messages are coming stronger from your position ... I was sorry that nobody had the idea to intervene sooner ... ".
"The testimony of this first responder, who passed by at that time and stopped to offer help, is chilling - the mayor wrote on institutional social networks - the public, in agreement with the one who sent it to me, to solicit the our reflection. I understand that not everyone can have the cold blood and the readiness to intervene when a person sets himself on fire. You can be frozen by the shock of what is happening, even with today's 40 degrees. But if the spectators of this tragedy have had the coldness to take the phone and capture the scene, instead of rushing to help or calling for help, then we have to ask ourselves questions. Serious and very, very urgent. What have we become? And if that woman had been our daughter, sister, wife , mother? What can make us so insensitive and detached towards the suffering of others? Why this indifference? ".
Meanwhile, the agents of the police station in Crema, with deputy commissioner Bruno Pagani, listened to dozens of witnesses. There are no video records recorded by mobile phones but the investigators themselves do not rule out that someone may have made some shots.