Alessandria, uninhabited farmhouse explosion: 3 dead firefighters and 3 wounded. Attorney: "Malicious act, we found timer and gas cylinder"

Three firefighters dead and three others seriously injured due to an explosion "volute and deliberately determined". It happened to Quargnento, village of a thousand inhabitants in the province of Alexandria, on the border with the hills of Monferrato: here, in via San Francesco d’Assisi, firefighters and soldiers were called to put out a fire that developed in an abandoned farmhouse. The stake in the late evening of Monday 4 November, around 24 the first explosion, after about a couple of hours the second explosion. It is the one that causes the collapse of the rest of the building, killing the three firefighters and wounding two carabinieri. They died like that Matteo Gastaldo, Marco Triches e Antonino Candido, intervened with colleagues on board afire truck. It was an explosion "desired e deliberately determined"The Alexandria prosecutor reiterated, Enrico Cieri, after an inspection of the place where some were found rudimentary triggers: "We are examining the finds – the prosecutor continued – we are digging through the rubble and we found one timer it's a unexploded gas cylinder which was seized. Now we must continue with the investigations, we are working to understand who and what caused this tragedy ".

Investigations: multiple homicide and malicious collapse – There Prosecution of Alexandria has opened a file, at the moment against unknown persons: multiple murder is arson collapse of hypothesized crimes of the building. The investigations of the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Alessandria, under the orders of the colonel Michele Angelo Lorusso, are coordinated by the prosecutor Cieri. Which specified how Giovanni Vincenti, the owner of the farmhouse, is "offended person, victim patrimonial"Of this story. "We have heard this several times, up to this afternoon – the prosecutor added – is collaborating in the gathering activity of the information. We will call him back ". The inquiry, underlined Cieri, intends to clarify “who and why he wanted damage in this way "the building owner, put in sale in recent months and destroyed by the violent explosion. Gods were found among the rubble trigger devices. Inside the farmhouse they were present several gas bottles that, according to an audio of the fire brigade published fromAdnkronos, they were put there to blow up the building. "The head of the body gathered us all to take stock of the situation – says a firefighter in the audio – and told us that the tanks were put in a way to blow up the building. A badly designed attack, it seems that colleagues have arrived that there had already been one explosion, while they were inside that there were these tanks exploded one more time. It seems that on these cylinders there were some triggers to demolish the building, to make it explode. This is what the head of the told us Body, to avoid spreading voices incorrect on the dynamics of the accident ".

The dynamics of the two explosions – According to the reconstruction, the fire brigade intervened in the abandoned farmhouse in Via San Francesco d'Assisi together with a patrol of the carabinieri following a first one explosion occurred around midnight that had caused part of the building to collapse. All of a sudden, around 2, while they were at work in the structure, the second explosion occurred which caused the collapse of the structure, killing Gastaldo, Triches and Candido and injuring two of their colleagues and a carabiniere, all transported to the hospital in Alessandria and Asti in serious condition. "We heard a loud bang, then the cries for help – a woman who resides in the area – We heard desperately calling. It was terrible, "adds the witness, with the face marked by the sleepless night for the tragedy.

"Excluding terrorist or subversive matrix" – Investigators are at work. The owner of the farmhouse was heard in the police station of Solero together with wife as a person informed of the facts. In place of the explosion also the carabinieri of the Ris. "The first hypotheses seem to exclude one subversive matrix or terrorist"The police chief explained Michele Morelli upon arrival in front of the farmhouse. "This is what we can say to reassure public opinion – he added – now let the investigators work. It was a great misfortune, there will be a painstaking job to go back to the causes ".

Hypothesis: possible disagreements between the owner of the house and his son – Among the assumptions being examined by the investigators, reports theHandle, the one of disagreements between the owner of the house and his son, as well as the track linked to the insurance compensation. At the moment, however, it is emphasized, it is only a matter of hypothesis of work. "I'm sorry for those dead kids, you don't have to die working," said the elderly farm owner's father. The man went with his wife to the rubble of the building where his son lived John. "He bought it and put it in order, my son is fond of horses, like my nephew, and he had two horses." Until two years ago, when he moved to Alexandria and has put up for sale the big house, without succeeding. "What was my idea? None – adds the father – With my son I didn't speak. I heard what had happened to the TV, then some relatives from Puglia called me. I only know that the house – it reaffirms – was uninhabited, the current disconnected ". The man says that the son "did the businessman, worked with the programs. I can't really say anything else ", concludes the man.

The farmhouse was for sale on specialized sites – In fact, the exploded farmhouse was for sale on the site from what the news agencies have learned immobiliare.it to 750 thousand euros. It is a fully fenced estate of 30 thousand square meters, as stated in the announcement, with a large one house manor finely restored, another farmhouse recently construction realized by maintaining architecture original of existing structures, horse stables e sheds. The Lady Antonella, which he entrusted to this and others agencies estate the sale of the farmhouse is in fact not to be found. "As soon as we heard the news we tried to to contact the owners – he explainedAdnkronos an agency employee – We sell from Milan, with them we have telephone reports and we take care of advertise the property to sell. For this estate we do not have theexclusive right, the announcement dates back to July. We were looking for the confirmation that was the very one farmhouse exploded, since they didn't specify from the site, even for that we have them called. But come on images there seems to be little doubt and i owners we were no longer able to hear them ”. Sympathy and closeness to the families of the deceased firefighters and to the whole corps of firefighters was expressed by the whole political world and by the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. "I am here because we are talking about carabinieri and firemen, mine is a due presence. I feel great pain, "said the Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorgese, on the site of the tragedy.

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