Matteo Gastaldo, among the firemen who died in Alessandria. Wife's pain

With jackets on and a helmet hanging from the belt, they improvised a picket for their hero-dead friends while on duty. Matteo lost his life dead doing what he loved – he tells his companion with swollen eyes -. He lived for his work. Before starting the service he kissed me and the baby and said see you tomorrow. When the colonel knocked on the door of the house, to Gavi, to tell me that he was missing, and then dead, the world fell on me. Now his colleagues will have to fulfill his wish: to carry his coffin on his back. Two other members of the fire brigade team on Monday night lost their lives during the intervention in the farmhouse in Via San Francesco d'Assisi. Marco Triches, 38 years old and Antonino Candido, 32 years old. Two other firefighters, Giuliano Dodero and Luca Trombetta and carabiniere Roberto Borlengo were injured. They were admitted to hospitals in Alessandria and Asti in severe conditions. They had arrived in the farmhouse, in the Monferrato countryside, after being alerted by some residents who had heard an explosion. It was half past midnight. They arrived and opened the gate, which had been closed with a chain, and started the inspection. Then, at one and a quarter, the second explosion. Much stronger. So much to feel even miles away.

In a few seconds the two-story house collapsed. The glasses arrived on the street, the pieces of the shutters in the lawns that surround the house. They remained under the rubble. Triches and Candido were extracted immediately. They were without life. Gastaldo instead died crushed under the debris. Found only yesterday morning after a few hours of research. An attempt of malicious origin according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Alessandria Enrico Cieri which investigates the case and has opened a dossier for multiple murder and disaster. In the house, triggers were found on the gas cylinders blown up and a timer set on 1 and 30. The Ris di Parma was also investigated. Several hypotheses on which the investigators are moving. Nothing is excluded. From retaliation to a desperate gesture. The house, where the Vincenti family, once the owner of the nearby stables, no longer lived, had been put up for sale without finding buyers.

The owner apparently had economic problems. With his wife, he was heard by the investigators in the Solero barracks first and then in that of Alessandria as a person informed of the facts. But there could also be insurance compensation behind the explosions. The elderly father of the Quargnento farmhouse owner went with his wife to the rubble of the building where his son Giovanni lived. He had bought it and put it in order. He is passionate about horses, like my nephew, Stefano. What was my idea? None. I didn't talk to my son Gianni. I heard what had happened to the TV, then some relatives from Puglia called me. I only know that the house was uninhabited. The retaliation track is not excluded either. Perhaps because of a debt Meanwhile, while the investigations are going on and autopsy tests have been arranged on the bodies of the victims, in the countries marked by pain the mayors have already declared a day of mourning in the city on the day of the funeral to remember their heroes.