Who were the financiers who died during an exercise in Valtellina? Their names and their stories broken too soon
Mourning in the Guardia di Finanza: three lives shattered in the course of their work, three stories that ended suddenly, three families destroyed and a child left orphaned. Three young soldiers, Luca Piani, Alessandro Pozzi And Simone Giacomellidied following an accident that occurred this afternoon, Wednesday 29 May, in Val Masino, in the province of Sondrio.
Simone Giacomelli, financier, the youngest of the three, was born in Sondrio in 2001 and enlisted in the Corps in 2022. He served at the Sagf station in Madesimo. Alessandro Pozzi, born in 1999 in Sondalo, had enlisted in the same year as his colleague and worked in the same mountain rescue station of the financial police. Luca Piani, the oldest at 33 years old, was the father of a 3-year-old child and had been on duty at the Sagf station in Sondrio since 2013.
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According to what has emerged so far, the three soldiers were carrying out anexercise climbing in the Val di Mello locality when, for reasons still to be clarified, the stop in Asteroid Precipice it gave way and one of the two roped parties fell, dragging the three young people with it.
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The alarm was raised around 1pm and despite the timely intervention of the police, the three soldiers were already dead. The emergency services who arrived on site could not help but declare his death. The magistrate on duty from the Sondrio Prosecutor’s Office also arrived at the scene of the incident, Piero Basiloneto start the relevant investigations.
The General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza, General Andrea De Gennaroexpressed his “deep condolences” to the families of the three soldiers, all young and full of life.
The news of the loss of these young lives profoundly shook the Guardia di Finanza community and left an unbridgeable void in the families and colleagues of the three soldiers.
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