Torgiano (Perugia), 10 November 2024 – Giovanni Spedaletti Trabalza was a basketball fan. A young referee, 18 years old, who also went down on the parquet on Saturday with the whistle in his mouth. Athletes from the youth sector will face each other of Virtus Assisi and the Ponte Vecchio.
Around 7pm, returning home, in Torgiano, along the Ferriera road, the collision with the car driven by a man from Brufa. A clash that for Giovanni, riding the motorbikeit was fatal.
Transported urgently at the Santa Maria della Misericordiadied shortly after arriving in the emergency room. The injuries sustained in the collision were too serious, the dynamics of which are being investigated by the carabinieri of the Assisi company.
“Giovanni had grown up playing basketball, sports that he madly loved. We are incredulous, disconcerted and saddened – writes the Assisi basketball club on its social channels – As a Virtus Assisi club we join the family by offering 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 for the whole week at all races. The very match that the young man was supposed to lead was full of emotion and pain. Before the start, flowers were placed on a chair in the center of the pitch with a referee’s shirt. There was then a minute’s silence.
Giovanni was a student at the scientific high school of Perugia who greeted him thus: “The whole community of the Liceo Galilei is shaken by a deep, violent, indescribable pain. We all gather together – manager, teachers, students, Ata staff – together with Giovanni’s family, his friends, his classmates. Hello Giovanni dear, your plans were ours too, your dreams were what we believe in, we will always miss your smile.”
Il Municipality of Torgiano canceled the events planned for the re-enactment of the ‘Salt War’. On the occasion of the funeral, the intention of Mayor Eridano Liberti is to proclaim city mourning. The Torgianese community is in shock. The director of the comprehensive school that Giovanni attended and where his mother, Tiziana, teaches, on behalf of the entire school “huddles around the family and in particular his mother, a motivated and generous teacher, always at the center of a thousand activities and projects , a precious component of the school community and a person at the forefront of the life of the country in every aspect”.
The Prosecutor’s Office will decide in the next few hours whether to carry out, as expected, an autopsy before giving the go-ahead for the funeral. In the file the hypothesis of road homicide.
