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27 September 2020 He left with a team of three people from the ground yesterday afternoon to save the two boys who, despite the stormy sea, had decided to dive in the Tono area with life jackets and ropes.

Aurelio Visalli, 40, second head of the Port Authority was swallowed shortly after by the waves, even before the patrol boats could arrive and when the two to be rescued were now safe.



His body was found by a naval vessel of the Coast Guard this morning, in front of the coast of Milazzo.



The Coast Guard dedicated the post on Twitter to the affections of the non-commissioned officer: "The Commander General and his colleagues all squeeze into a feeling of condolence and closeness to his family".



The funeral home for the non-commissioned officer of the Capitaneria Aurelio Visalli will be set up in the Council room of the Municipality of Milazzo this afternoon.



Electoral appointments that provided for the presence of Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who will still be present in the town of Mamertina, but only to pay homage to the body of the Port Authority's non-commissioned officer, have been postponed.




"I express my closeness and condolences to the family and to the Coast Guard of the second chief Aurelio Visalli, whose body was found at sea. He died to save the lives of two bathers in difficulty in Milazzo. We remember him and all the people who they put their commitment and their lives at the service of citizens and institutions ".

Thus the defense minister, Lorenzo Guerini, who spoke in Saluzzo (Cuneo) on the occasion of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa.



"We felt it was our duty, out of respect for Aurelio and his family, to suspend the visit of Minister Luigi Di Maio, which was scheduled for today in Milazzo".

M5s senator Barbara Floridia writes it on Facebook after the discovery of the body of the non-commissioned officer Aurelio Visalli, who died during the rescue of a fifteen-year-old at sea.