he was 17 years old. He saw the police, ran away and hit a wall. He was without a helmet

No one knows what went through his head at that moment. And no one will ever know why Edoardo Clementi17-year-old Romanian student, died. He crashed into a wall while fleeing from a police patrol, on board a scooter – which turned out to be stolen – which the young man was driving without a helmet . The accident happened on Monday afternoon in Riva way Innthe road that runs along the river Tiber, a stone’s throw from the Gazometro.

THE DYNAMICS

It’s just after 6pm. However, at the sight of the soldiers, the boy sitting behind him jumps off the scooter, throws his helmet on the ground and runs away on foot, hiding in the vegetation next to the a river Clementi, however, accelerates at full throttle trying to escape​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​front The policeman immediately turns to reach him, but loses sight of him. However, Clementi’s escape is short-lived. Moments later the soldiers found him lying on the ground. The young man’s condition appeared serious immediately after the accident in a wall surrounding the fire brigade’s diving barracks overlooking the Tiber.

Elena Chiandussi, who died at the age of 33 in Udine after a serious road accident

THE EVENT

Ambulance 118 arrived immediately and urgently transported the student to San Camillo where Clementi died shortly after arriving at the emergency room. Local police officers from Group VIII Tintoretto also intervened at the scene of the accident to carry out investigations, confirming that the accident happened independently. In the area of ​​the impact there are several closed circuit cameras and from the analysis of the videos there would be no doubt about the terrible death: the boy lost control of the vehicle, which seems to have been stolen on September 29, and violence hit into the wall. According to custom, the prosecutor on duty at the time was informed. The deputy prosecutor, Antonino Di Maio, after the usual investigations, did not order an autopsy and returned the body of the young man to his family for burial.

THE HOLY WAR

Edoardo Clementi was a 17-year-old student who had “never been in trouble with the law”, assuring his friends who are now mourning him. The victim actually had no criminal record, as police confirmed. “A quiet boy”, say the residents of the building where he lived, in the Portuense area. “He studied to become an optician and followed in his mother’s footsteps,” said Maria, a neighbor who has known him since he was a boy.

LEADERS

But his life was not just about learning. He also had many friends, as evidenced by the many condolence messages published immediately after his death on the Tik Tok platform, where the student often published videos. In a film from five days ago, the young man is shown in a sports suit, leaning against a wall and smiling. In the video there is an inscription: «Despite everything always with a smile». “That smile that is no more,” said those who knew him sadly, wondering what could have happened. In those hours everyone asks “how was this possible” because he was really a “quiet boy”, they repeat on social media where Sympathetic comments and memories attached to the young student multiply hourly.