Marcello Sina, 56 years old and father of two daughters, residing in Belpasso but domiciled in Braidi (Montalbano Elicona).
He is the man who, around 15.30 on Monday, fell into a cliff along the road of agricultural penetration “Serbeto – Cafocchio – Mortizzi – San Cosimo”, in the territory of Patti, while he was driving a truck owned by the Boschiva and land movement company for which he worked with the handle of driver.
The heavy vehicle rolled down the escarpment for several tens of meterswhile the man would have been thrown out of the passenger compartment. The attempts to resuscitation by the 118 medical personnel is in vain: the 56 -year -old died shortly before the arrival of the helicopter.
According to a first reconstruction Sina, who traveled in the direction of Patti, would have approached the truck along the right eyelash of the Agricultural Provincial 189 to allow the passage of a car that was along the same stretch of road. Suddenly the asphalt would have sold under the weight of the heavy vehicle, sinking downstream and dragging the vehicle along the escarpment. The lifeless body of Marcello Sina was transferred to the mortuary of the “Barone Romeo” hospital in Patti pending the autopsy, while the judicial authority has in the meantime opened a file to ascertain any responsibilities.
At work also the carabinieri of the Patti station, who are trying to shed light on the exact dynamic of the tragedy. On January 20, just a week before the terrible accident, the road management of the metropolitan city of Messina had ordered the closing of the transit of the provincial 119 of Moreri for a large landslidesimultaneously identifying the provincial of agricultural penetration “Serbeto – Cafocchio -Mortizzi – S. Cosimo” as a road suitable for guaranteeing alternative roads. The ordinance, the number 5/25, also specified that the transit along the provincial agricultural 189 would have been granted exclusively to cars. However, both along the entire route and before the two entrances, Montalbano side and Patti side, there would have been no trace of the appropriate transit ban on trucks and heavy vehicles.
Meanwhile, the messages of condolence addressed to the family multiply; The words published on social media by his daughter Eleonora was moving: «My dad my dad, it was enough to tear you away for a moment. How long does it last a sudden moment? It lasts enough to ruin a life forever. They stole it to me, you saw yourself die dad. We will never have peace again, never again ». Also the mayor of Montalbano. Antonino Todaro, the councilors, the Prime Minister and the councilors all expressed condolences to the family.
Marcello Sina, esteemed and welcome by everyone, every weekend returned to Belpasso to spend time with the family but during the working days he was always in Braidi, employed by Carmelo Gulino’s company: the entrepreneur of Montalbano Elicona who had the courage to denounce the extortion and mafia intimidation of the Tortoriciani and thanks to which the investigation then resulted in the imposing “Nebrodi” operation had taken shape.
