First cheering and disappointment, then sudden panic and fear. All perhaps triggered by a firecracker. It's a night of chaos and injuries, a night to forget in Piazza San Carlo, in the heart of a Turin dressed in black and white to follow Juve in the Champions League final in Cardiff from the giant screens. A thousand injured (the balance is still provisional), with a child who has a reserved prognosis, at the Regina Margherita children's hospital, for a head and chest trauma. When Allegri's team had already given way to Real, and the square abandoned hope, all of a sudden chaos.
"They screamed and pushed, and a general stampede began", some witnesses say, fueling the first reconstructions that spoke of a false alarm of the attack. “Felt like staying at the Heysel”, the obscure thought of an elderly Juventus fan present in the square, in front of that crowd that staggers and then spreads, person upon person. The dynamics and the first testimonies immediately made us think of dubious terrorism, someone who screamed, creating the impression of an attack, to the point of awakening the unconscious nightmares in the days of global terror.
"It could have been a firecracker, perhaps unconsciously detonated, that triggered the panic," says Turin police commissioner Angelo Sanna, who is coordinating the activities necessary to ascertain what happened from the operations room of the police station.
