The call for help via the emergency number 118 is received on Friday around 11.30 a.m. The voice is weak. The woman speaks Arabic. A translator helps the Carabinieri. “We were hit by a combine harvester,” says the woman with the last of her strength. «My girlfriend is no longer alive. I am badly injured. ” Then the connection breaks off. The callbacks are in vain. The cell phone can only be located vaguely in the short term. Now it’s dead.
The sun is beating down on the fields of San Giuliano. Over 2000 hectares of agriculture flank the city motorway. Cornfields as far as the eye can see. Somewhere out there are two women in their blood. The caller is quickly identified. She is Moroccan. The family is informed. She confirms: The two women wanted to go for a walk. A feverish search begins.
Helicopters and sniffer dogs help look for the women
Two helicopters rise. Police and fire brigade scour the huge fields. Sniffer dogs are in action. Civil defense men also help. The public prosecutor’s office in Lodi (I) is trying to locate the cell phone again. In vain.
A precious 36 hours pass before the search parties arrive at the scene of the accident on Saturday evening at around 7:50 p.m. They find two bodies. Next to the dead women are blankets and a few cans of beer. Had the two Moroccans fallen asleep and hadn’t heard the approaching combine harvester? The exact cause of death is now to clarify an autopsy.
Corn fields are also a transshipment point for the cocaine trade
For the time being, there is no trace of an agricultural machine and its driver. Didn’t the farmer see the women lying between the corn stalks, didn’t hear their screams? The farmer is not found until Sunday. “I didn’t notice anything,” says the man at the station for the record. The question remains what the women were doing on Friday afternoon in the middle of the corn field.
One of the two victims is known to the police. The woman had been convicted of robbery before. The other has no criminal record. The fields of San Giuliano Milanese are dangerous not only because of their combine harvesters. Drugs are also sold here. In the vicinity of the corpse find is the forest of Rogoredo, a well-known trading point for cocaine, where raids have repeatedly taken place in recent months.
Published: 04.07.2021, 21 minutes ago
Last updated: July 4, 2021, 2 minutes ago