Explosion in via del Seminario, the mayor meets the immigrant hero: deserves citizenship – Chronicle

LIVORNO. "When I figured out what had happened and I saw two people on the first floor," he says, "I ran up stairs from home." I climbed and I extracted, not without difficulty, first the girl then the mother. It was not easy, but it came to me instinctively. " Qato Nertil 31 years old, tells to the mayor of Livorno Filippo Nogarin the tragic moments that it was he lived
Thursday, June 28 at via del Seminario
when the apartment of number 33 exploded and the thirty-one rescued Margherita Roccanova 57 years old and her 14 year old daughter who lives on the first floor at number 35.

A gesture of courage that pushed the first citizen to meet him and to promise him an officially recognized by the Prefecture the heroic gesture. "Sunday, July 1 – explains Nogarin – we learned that Angela Tarroboiro the woman who lived on the ground floor, is
died as a result of reported burns
. It hurts us deeply. The budget could have been even more tragic if there had been the intervention of Qato Nertil, who alone managed to save the two women who live on the first floor of the building. A gesture of extreme courage that I would have been officially recognized. That's why I've already contacted the prefecture, asking for a commitment in this direction. "

Margherita Roccanova speaks, who lives with her daughter above the destroyed house: "We live miraculously, this woman wanted to blow up the building"

Nertil, six, s & # 39; installs in Italy after the work experience in Greece. Here in Livorno, he found his sister, uncles and cousins ​​and started working on the renovation of his uncle. A company that, like many others, has suffered the effects of the economic crisis, so much so that 16 months ago, Nertil lost his job and is looking for a new job. But he kept a van and a few tools that were very important on June 28th. "Nertil has been here for six years – concludes the mayor – is regular and still does not have Italian nationality, given that our laws impose 10 years of residence in our country.I remember French President Macron who decided to regularize and give residence on May 28 to this boy from Mali who saved a child by climbing a building.I would like to do something similar.This would be an extraordinary signal. "