A more different night in Florence...

Here's my story....

At 11.45 p.m. on January 4th the police of Florence was called by an old man, who had seen a young girl dead.

It was a cold night: it was snowing and all the streets were illuminated by many dim streetlamps; I had to write my first report and I was very keyed up.

That night was different from the others, because a poor girl had lost her life without clear motive. She was seen by an old man, who every night went out for a walk with his dog. That night, however, this man had seen a leg stick out from a bush: it was a young girl’s leg.

After the old man’s call, the Florentine police arrived quickly and immediately they started to analyse the poor young body. A group of policemen interrogated the old man: they asked him what he had seen that night and if he had noticed something unusual. He answered that he had seen nobody: he had gone out only for a walk.

Four policemen put themselves to search for something that could help them to understand what had happened a few hours before. Three dogs started to inspect the place: one of them found a bracelet. The police asked the old man if it was his, but it wasn’t. The man was very scared, because he realized he had discovered something dangerous, but a policeman calmed him down and explained him that everything would be solved as soon as possible.

Then other officers came and during the night they analysed a lot of clues that were found in the park. Only after three days, they managed to explain the event: thanks to the young girl’s mobile phone and the bracelet they could arrive at a conclusion. I carefully watched the whole scene: I had never witnessed such a clear and quick solution of a murder before .

The bracelet belonged to one of the young girl’s friend, who was very jealous of her, because she was the ex-girlfriend of her boyfriend. That night she had phoned the young girl over her mobile phone perhaps to meet her, but the other girl became mad with jealousy, because, as she explained to the police, she found a lot of her text messages from the girl in the her boyfriend’s mobile phone. So she killed her.

In the end the other girl was devastated by what had happened : she could not understand why she had lost control of her emotions and how she could have killed another person.

This was a very sad story; a young girl had lost her life because of someone else’s jealousy.

Passions should not make people so blind, because they may become destructive for all mankind!

Greta Perini