2024-04-30 21:55:18
BOLZANO. “Matteo ‘Standard of the Republic’, this fact took us by surprise, we are enthusiastic and honoured.” Matteo Zago‘s mother says it, Alessandra Zaninottoto the news that his son was awarded the ‘Standard’ certificate by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
«Matteo at the time of the events he was seven and a half years old» says the mother. «You were in the car with your father in Bolzano at the traffic lights at the intersection of via Milano and via Palermo when your father felt ill. The car, being electric, started up. So Matteo who understood the situation, he took his father’s leg off the accelerator and applied the handbrake. Then he took his father’s cell phone and… he called 112. Only afterwards did he call me, so much so that when I arrived on site, the rescuers were already resuscitating my husband”, recalls Matteo’s mother.
«At first I was so worried about my husband that I didn’t realize that my son had done an exceptional thing. It was a family friend who reported this action to the Quirinale and the news that Matteo has been awarded makes us proud”, says Alessandra. «Now my husband is fine, thanks to Matteo, but also thanks to the timely help. We thanked Matteo and Santa Claus was also generous with him, but he is aware that the greatest gift is that dad, thanks to his promptness, is still here with us”, concludes Alessandra Zaninotto.
2024-04-30 21:55:18