Mugello, the dark points in the disappearance of little Nicola

The shoes still on her feet, the front door, but also the kilometers traveled and the delay in sounding the alarm. Many questions and points all to be clarified to the investigators in the story of the disappearance in Mugello of Nicola Tanturli, the 21-month-old baby found yesterday morning at the bottom of an escarpment with a vertical drop of 25 meters in a wood in the area of ​​the municipality of Palazzuolo sul Senio (Florence). Read also The questions Why, if the child was put to bed, was he wearing sandals when he was found? How is it possible that he could have traveled alone 4 or 5 km? Why did the molecular dogs that passed through the ravine not smell the baby’s presence? Who owns the traces of blood found near the front door of the cottage? And above all why did the parents wait at least nine hours before sounding the alarm and triggering the searches? The Florentine Prosecutor’s Office, directed by the chief prosecutor Giuseppe Creazzo, has opened a file at the moment without suspects and without indication of a crime. The doubts must first be answered by Leonardo Tanturli, father, and Pina, Nicola’s mother, the parents who also have another four-year-old son. For the carabinieri, who conduct the investigations, the child of less than 2 years would have left the cottage alone, wandering through the woods near the house, for about 30 hours. Other hypotheses by the investigators of the weapon would be excluded. However, the soldiers of the company of Borgo San Lorenzo (Florence), territorially competent, under the orders of the commander, Major Michele Arturo, are investigating in all directions and are examining every useful element. Parents “We are making the first checks on the dynamics what happened and we will report everything to the judiciary “, confirmed yesterday Major Michele Arturo to Adnkronos. “The evaluation on the behavior of the parents at the end of the investigations will naturally be reported to the Prosecutor at the end of all the investigations, now every conclusion is premature”. To avoid the parents being accused of abandonment of a minor, which could be the conceivable crime against them, the parents must clarify precisely the circumstances and the way in which the disappearance of their child from the cottage took place. Parents will also have to explain why they raised the alarm to start the search only at 9 on Tuesday 22 June after having ascertained, according to their account, the disappearance of Nicola from the bed just before midnight on 21 June. A detail to specify concerns the sandals that the child was wearing when he was picked up by lieutenant Danilo Ciccarelli, who rescued him in the ravine. Was Nicola put to bed with sandals? Is it possible to think that he put on his sandals by himself at 21 months? They will be among the questions that will be asked to parents. Nicola was found after 30 hours about 2.5 kilometers away from the cottage where he lives with his family, but he would have traveled perhaps twice the distance in his wandering through the woods. Lieutenant Danilo Ciccarelli, commander of the Scarperia station, who rescued the child in the ravine, said: “At the point where I picked up the little ones, the grass was not crushed and my impression is that he had not passed the night”. The molecular dogs, who had previously passed through that same area, hadn’t smelled anything of Nicola. The hypothesis is that he wandered for 4 or 5 kilometers on foot passing by dirt roads and then falling into the ravine, as evidenced by the scratches on his body, perhaps caused by brambles. Finally there is a mystery concerning some traces of blood that the carabinieri found at the door of the cottage. But for the military, who are still doing further investigations on the issue, the yellow would already be resolved. On the afternoon of Monday 21 June, while he was playing, Nicola would have fallen and peeled his skin. Dad’s words “While we were looking for him the first night we heard him cry a few hundred meters away, we hoped to find him: we made a mistake not to give the alarm immediately “, explained Nicola’s father to Tg1 about the 9 hours of gap before the arrival of help. And on the disappearance, he explained to Corsera, “here the children play freely, they are always out … Maybe he was looking for us who were out and got lost”, he speculates. “In recent times it has grown by a few centimeters, now – he said again – he can reach the handle. He must have opened the door, maybe he didn’t find us and started looking for us”.