Torgiano (Perugia), 10 November 2024 – Giovanni Spedaletti Trabalza is a basketball fan. A young referee, 18 years old, who also fell on the parquet on Saturday with a whistle in his mouth. Athletes will compete in the youth sector by Virtus Assisi and the Ponte Vecchio.
Around 7 pm, on the way home, in Torgiano, along Ferriera street, the collision of a car driven by a man from Brufa. A battle that for Giovanni, on a motorcycleit was fatal.
Brought right away of Santa Maria della Misericordiadied shortly after arriving at the emergency room. The injuries sustained in the collision are very serious, its dynamics are being investigated by the carabinieri of the Assisi company.
“Giovanni grew up playing basketball, sports that he loved so much. We are in disbelief, confused and sad – wrote the Assisi basketball club on its social channels – As a Virtus Assisi club we join the family by giving our deepest condolences and feelings of closeness and affection”.
The president of the Italian Basketball Federation, Giovanni Petrucciannounced a minute’s silence for yesterday and the entire weekend for all races. Full of emotions and pain the battle that the single man should have led. Before kick-off, flowers were placed on a chair in the middle of the pitch with the referee’s shirt. There was a minute’s silence.
Giovanni was a student at the scientific high school in Perugia who greeted him thus: “The whole community of Liceo Galilei was shaken by a deep, violent, indescribable pain. We all gathered – managers, teachers, students, Ata staff – with Giovanni’s family, his friends, his classmates. Hello Giovanni dear, your plans are ours too, your dreams are what we believe in, we will always miss your smile.”
Il Municipality of Torgiano events planned for the re-enactment of the ‘Salt War’ have been cancelled. On the occasion of the funeral, the intention of Mayor Eridano Liberti is to proclaim mourning in the city. The Torgianese community was shocked. The director of the comprehensive school that Giovanni attends and where his mother, Tiziana, teaches, for the whole school “gathers the family and especially his mother, a passionate and generous teacher, always at the center of one thousands of activities and projects, a valuable part of the school community and a person who leads the life of the country in every aspect”.
The Prosecutor’s Office will decide in the next hours whether to perform, as expected, an autopsy before giving the go-ahead for the funeral. In the file is the hypothesis of road homicide.