Maldives, Montefalcone’s husband: “I have no peace; from tomorrow I’ll be recovering bodies”

Genoa, 18 May (LaPresse) – ‘I have no peace’. Carlo Sommacal, the husband of Genoese lecturer and researcher Monica Montefalcone, is facing the hardest hours since his wife’s disappearance last Thursday during a dive in the Maldives, which also involved his daughter Giorgia and the other three divers: Muriel Oddenino, Gianluca Benedetti and Federico Gualtieri. In the last few hours, the Foreign Ministry has confirmed the sighting of the four bodies still missing inside the underwater tunnels in the Thinwana Kandu cave, whilst that of Gianluca Benedetti, the first to be found, will be repatriated to Italy this evening. “The Foreign Ministry contacted me,” he explains to LaPresse, “because they have found the four bodies; the recovery will begin tomorrow. At the moment, I wouldn’t even know how to get there.” His youngest son, who is finishing high school, is also at home with him. On Saturday evening, hundreds of people – friends, students and colleagues of Montefalcone, and school and university friends of his daughter Giorgia – gathered around the family in Pegli, at the church in the Giardino district, for a moment of reflection and collective prayer. “I just want to bring my wife and daughter home,” Sommacal had explained.