“I couldn’t imagine the train traveling alone. Until Carnate station everything seemed normal. Then that mess happened … Like a bomb. I’m still scared now, I haven’t slept. ‘ The memory is fragmented into scattered frames that overlap in the excitement of the story. But despite an Italian who is not always fluid, the forty-nine-year-old Moroccan Salah M. does not shy away from repeating his testimony as the only passenger of the Trenord convoy 10776, the “ghost train” that left alone and ended its run by hitting a wall in the Brianza station of Carnate. “I’ve already told the police everything,” he is quick to point out. And in fact the Polfer agents – who when they entered his personal details in the terminal discovered a past with some judicial “stumbling” – heard him immediately after pulling it out of the sheets.
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First of all, how are you?
«My neck, my left foot, my knee hurts, I couldn’t sleep, I don’t feel well …».
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But luckily, seeing how that train crumpled, it got away with minor consequences.
«Yes I know, luckily I was in the last car, but what a mess …».
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But why were you on board that train long before the departure time from the Paderno-Robbiate station?
«I left Milan and had to go to Carnate. But then I fell asleep and I missed the stop and then I woke up that the train had arrived at the other station and everyone got off ».
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So she wasn’t even supposed to be there?
«No, no, I had to go down to Carnate, all this happened because I overslept. And so I sat on the stationary train waiting to go back ».
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So the train left. But in advance and on board there was only her.
«In my car I was alone, yes, but I didn’t look to see if there were other people and I didn’t pay attention to the time. And how could I have thought that there was no one to drive? If a train goes it means that there is someone who makes it go ».
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Were the doors open or closed?
“They were open, but after a while they closed.”
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So it seemed like a normal trip to you?
«Normal, yes. But at the Carnate station it became strange ».
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What did you notice?
“That the train did not stop and passed on a platform far from the station.”
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And what do you remember about the moment of the crash?
“Like when a bomb goes off, all broken, glass on him, a loud noise, a disaster. My leg hurt and I couldn’t walk. The firefighters and ambulance crews came to pick me up and helped me get out of the wagon that had ended up at the top ».
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What will he do now?
“I don’t know, I’m at my brother’s house in Lecco, I still feel badly in my neck and I couldn’t sleep”.
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Will you ask for damages?
“I don’t know what to do. I told the police everything I did everything I had to, I don’t know afterwards. I will ask my brother to help me. What a mess…”.
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