The wife of the young Vincenzo will not celebrate her first wedding anniversary because among the victims of Suviana, the youngest is her husband: Vincenzo Franchina, a 36-year-old man originally from Sicily, from the Municipality of Sinagra, in the province of Messina. Vincenzo died yesterday while working at the Bargi hydroelectric plant (a hamlet of Camugnano, in the metropolitan city of Bologna). The plant suffered a violent explosion during a test.
Vincenzo Franchina, was 36 years old and had recently become a father, the youngest victim of Suviana
Today in Camugnano, flags are at half-mast for Vincenzo, Mario, and Pavel. Vincenzo's story is striking not only because he is the youngest - not even forty years old - but also because he had been married for a very short time: last May and soon after had become a father. He thus leaves behind a family with whom he lived in Genoa, a widow as young as him, and a child who will never know his father. He is described as a polite, reserved, man of few words, extremely kind, and above all a great worker. This is how the mayor of Sinagra, Antonino Musca, who had officiated Vincenzo's wedding a short while ago, remembers him.
Explosion at Suviana, the night operations of the Fire Brigade
"I was with Vincenzo's family until a short while ago, it is a time of great pain. We are just over two thousand inhabitants, here we all know each other," explains to ANSA. The pain is that of an entire community, devastated by the tragedy, rallying around a reserved family. "I knew Vincenzo well, I had the privilege of celebrating his wedding last January, 2023. He attended the school where I taught at the time, occasionally I also gave him a ride home. A polite person, of rare kindness like his whole family. People of great dignity for whom I can only have good words." Vincenzo and his wife, a nurse at the Gaslini in Genoa also originally from a town near Sinagra, had left their land for work reasons. They lived in Genoa. "Vincenzo was an employee of an external company that did maintenance work for Enel, I don't remember the name," says the mayor.
The Franchina family is engulfed in sorrow, "they will certainly come to Bologna but not immediately since the bodies are under seizure." "I have very little to do - adds Musca moved - but we are available. We are certainly thinking of declaring a city mourning."
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