Krakow: 'A friend of my son tried to help a girl'
The story of the Foscolo high school students involved in the attack in the Market Square
Quick Look
Students of the Foscolo high school in Albano, witnesses of a shooting in Krakow's Market Square, are on their way back to Italy by bus after having taken refuge in safety thanks to the intervention of teachers and the embassy.
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Why It Matters
A group of students from the Foscolo high school in Albano were on a school trip to Krakow during a shooting that occurred in the Market Square.
"Don't worry, I'm fine, I'm locked in the Hard Rock Café with other guys because an attacker shot in the square. I immediately took refuge under a table and then the staff made us go up to the top floor". This is the story told to the mother yesterday by one of the Albano students who witnessed the shooting in Krakow's Market Square.
"My son told me that from above he saw a girl covered by an orange sheet and another who were being resuscitated. A friend of his tried to help a girl who didn't make it", Moira Buttu told ANSA. Terrible moments, which however did not make the teachers who accompanied the two classes of the Foscolo high school lose their clarity. "The professors were very good. They immediately contacted the Italian embassy." And timely and equally praiseworthy, Buttu always reports, was the intervention of the embassy which immediately began to group the boys together in a hotel.
Now the boys are traveling by bus to Italy. A route 1,600 kilometers long and which will see three drivers taking turns driving: the initial two expected have been joined by another who will go up to the border. The two classes could have left, staggered into several groups and several days, with different flights from today to next Tuesday. But compared to the alternative of dividing them, "it would be better if they all left together by bus".
Open Questions
- Identity and motive of the attacker
- Conditions of the victims involved
