Bra, the father of Abdou Ngom, the thirteen year old thrown into the river and never found: “Look for his body: I want to bring him back to Senegal and be able to cry”

For months, a tragic accident has been thought of. Abdou Ngom, 13 years old, disappeared on April 22, Easter Monday, after ending up in the Tanaro river, at the “Crystal beach” in Verduno, in the province of Cuneo, where he had spent the afternoon with three older friends.

But now the Prosecutor of Minors of Turin, coordinated by the chief prosecutor Emma Avezzù, subjected A 15 year old to the precautionary measure in the community: the accusation is voluntary murder in the form of possible malice. According to the investigators, he was the one who pushed Abdou into the water, perhaps for fun, despite The boy shouted: “No, I can’t swim.”

The body, overwhelmed by the current in a period of full due to bad weather, has never been recovereddespite days of research of the Civil Protection. Elements collected in the following weeks, from the chats extrapolated from the phones of the three teenagers present to environmental interceptions, would also indicate an attempt to agree on the versions to be provided to the investigators.

“I don’t know what happened that day, how things went,” he explains to Courier Khadim, Abdou Ngom’s father. “I would like to know the truth and why, whatever it is. If a boy says he can’t swim, why is he pushed into the water? ».

Specialized and resident worker in Italy for 24 years, Khadim Ngom has lived with his wife and three other children: two males of 15 and 9 years old and a girl of 4. «That day I was at work. Abdou came out without warning. We didn’t know he would go to the river: if he had told me, I would never have given him permission».

The pain is amplified by the absence of a body to be buried: «We live a double pain: our son died and we do not have a body to cry. It is important for us to get his body back, he would raise at least one of the suffering. After his death, we celebrated two ceremonies in Bra and Senegal, where Abdou’s grandparents still live. And there that we have to bring it back ».

Assisted by the lawyer Francesca Carpino, Khadim wrote to the Prefect to ask for a new patrol of the Tanarotaking advantage of the level of water today lowest and the sides uncovered. «I have confidence in justice and in the judiciary. I want to know the truth about my son’s death: he was a good boy ».