Now there are no more doubts. The family members of Nicola Schimio, the 79 -year -old who disappeared on September 27, 2023 in the Badia hamlet, were informed, probably by the Vibo prosecutor, that the human remains found last April in a campaign on the border between Nicotera and Limbadi belong to their relative. The news puts an end to the Angosciante expected that for just over two years we have weighed on the elderly family members. Now there is only to wait for the restitution of the remains subjected to the examination by the DNA by the Ris of Messina, in order to proceed with the funeral rite.
Nicola Schimio, on September 27, 2023, in compliance with his daily habits, had left the house to go to the countryside. At the time of the return, the caregiver, not seeing him return, wore and warned his family members. Research immediately took place which, in the days to follow, were extended even beyond the territories of Limbadi and Nicotera. Carabinieri, police, firefighters, family members and many volunteers participated and molecular dogs, drones and every useful tool were employed. Unfortunately, no trace was found of the elderly. A month later, the searches were suspended. To reopen the case of Nicola Schimio’s disappearance was the discovery, last April, of human remains mixed with shreds of clothes, scattered in a limiting land with an interpoderal road on the border between Nicotera and Limbadi. Stradina that, according to the testimony of the people who knew him, Nicola Schimio used to travel to reach his campaign.
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