16-Year-Old from Colico Found Safe in Milan After Disappearance

The nightmare is over. The 16-year-old boy from Colico who disappeared on March 21st, was found on Friday morning in the area of the Central Station of Milan, where he was last seen by cameras on the day of his disappearance. The last frame, captured that morning, had shown him at the station, wandering among the shops and eating an ice cream. Initially, it was speculated that he might be in the company of a second person - indeed filmed next to him -, but the prosecution later denied that hypothesis. He was buying a ticket to go home. He was recognized by a couple of travelers, who immediately notified the personnel of Fs Security, who in turn requested the intervention of the Railway Police. The police reported the incident. In his flight, he had reached Montenegro. The young man - following the activation of all international police cooperation channels by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Lecco - was checked on the night of March 27th by the Croatian police at the Karasovici-Sutorina border with Montenegro. The boy - the Carabinieri of Lecco explained - seeing himself discovered, returned to Italy and was recognized thanks to the dissemination of surveillance camera images. "The searches conducted both nationally and internationally, thanks to the active collaboration of all Institutions, the coordination of the Prefecture of Lecco, and the investigative directives of the Prosecutor's Office of the capital city of Lecco - the military explained - allowed to reconstruct" how the boy "after taking a train on the morning of March 21st from the Fs station of Morbegno, reached the Milan Central railway station, losing his tracks". "Following the activation of all international police cooperation channels by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Lecco, the young man was checked on the night of March 27th by the Croatian police at the Karasovici-Sutorina border with Montenegro. Seeing himself discovered, he returned to the Italian national territory where he was recognized thanks to the dissemination of images extracted by the Carabinieri in the past days and disseminated by the Judicial Authority". The father: "A terrible week" "I thank the law enforcement and all the people who helped us during this terrible week". These are the first words of the father of the 16-year-old who disappeared on March 21st in Colico, in the Lecchese area, and was found after 8 days at the Central Station of Milan. The parent briefly spoke with journalists while entering the Polfer station with his wife, the boy's mother, where the agents had taken the 16-year-old after finding him.