After surviving the Genoa Bridge collapse to see the birth of his son, all family plays the most significant roles in live Nativity scene in Chiusola

They asked him to play Giuseppe, in the living crib of Chiusola, a small village on the heights of Sesta Godano (La Spezia) and he could not say no. On the contrary, she also took her to play the role of Mary and her son Peter in the role of Jesus.

The peculiarity is that to represent the ‘Holy Family’ is the family of Gianluca Ardini, one of the survivors of the collapse of Morandi bridge. Ardini had saved himself by hanging on the carcass of his truck for hours.

From there a few days would become Peter’s father. “I can not die,” he said to the rescuers, “my son is born in a few weeks”. “I am very close to Chiusola – he explained -, it is my grandfather’s country and here I have many friends, who were close to me immediately after the accident”. The representation took place in the afternoon.

Ardini has resumed walking, but has not yet returned to work. “It will still take months,” he said. “The bridge? I follow everything and I take part in the hearings.