Siena, child sets grocery shopping on fire. Look for the adult who was with him
Siena, 20 March 2022 – Everything under the eyes of the camera. UN baby, wool hat on his head, backpack dropped on his shoulders as all the little ones wear when they go to school. Go to the upper floor of the ‘Area 9’ clothing store in via Banchi di sotto. Wedged shirts are exposed on hangers, in a place where the staff, who was in the other room with a customer, could never see him. Too low to notice what the camera is shooting instead.
The child lowers slightly, even if the clothing covers the hand gesture. Then he leaves, going down the stairs. Nobody notices what happened except when, a few moments later, the flames envelop the shirts. And immediately the employees run to put out the fire. A quick intervention, that the spread of the stake. All taken from a video that the store manager, Antonio Degortes, delivered yesterday to the carabinieri in Viale Bracci where he filed a complaint for the episode that took place on Friday afternoon.
“At the beginning – as he explains he goes to command of the Arma – we thought of a short circuit. But since he was excluded by the technician who intervened, we watched the videos of the internal video surveillance in the late evening. And we have seen that the fire develops. as soon as the child, after having lowered himself, goes away ”. He would be in the company of his father, who wore a hat and mask, like many of him during this time. So not easily recognizable.
A miracle that nothing serious has happened given the amount of visible clothing that the fire could spread to in the business located in the historic center. The question arises: why did a child have fun starting the fire? A game (not at all nice, mind you) for boys? Moreover, if discovered, it would not even be imputable. Were they tourists? And again: perhaps the act of arsonists who, as often happens, enjoy seeing help arrive and observing the consequences of what they have caused? No hypothesis can now be ruled out.
“I believe that it is not impossible for the police to trace their identity – observes Degortes – as there are numerous video surveillance cameras in the historic center where the shop is located”. The carabinieri will immediately get to work to see the films relating to Friday afternoon in the city.
Laura Valdesi