Mihaela Loredana and Mircea Gabriel Ogrezanu, the Romanian couple who tragically died with their daughters in a car accident in Mestre, Italy, had moved to Germany for work and were on vacation when the tragedy that killed 17 more people. The Italian press presents some of the heartbreaking stories of the victims of Tuesday night’s bus accident in Mestre, which killed 21 people.

Among the victims of the accident in Mestre are four Romanians. It is about the Ogrezeana family, which includes Aurora Maria (8 years old), Georgiana Olena (13 years old), Michael Loredan (42 years old) and Mircea Gabriel (45 years old).

Mihaela and Mircea came from Dambovica and Arges. They left the country for several years and settled in Germany, where they lived.

“The Romanian family was broken. Pain is added to pain as we discover the stories and connections between the people who were victims of the bus tragedy in Mestre. Among the dead is Ogrezyan’s family. Father, mother and two daughters, all citizens of Romania. The parents, however, moved to Germany to work,” writes leggo.it, News.ro reports.

Some time ago, they left the country in search of a better life and settled in Germany, where they found work and a place to live. This confused the rescuers and the Italian authorities, who confused them with German citizens and initially announced that no Romanians were involved in the accident, leggo.it notes.

From Germany, Ogrezyanu’s family went on vacation to Italy, and on Tuesday they returned by bus after a visit to Venice. Their bodies are now in the hospital morgue in Mestre and will be repatriated as soon as the Romanian authorities, in agreement with the Italian authorities, decide on this.

Relatives of the Romanians went to Italy to identify their bodies

Relatives of the Ogrezeanul family have come to Italy to identify them, although identifying the dead is difficult given the circumstances and severity of the accident.

On Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the mobile consular team of the Consulate General of Romania in Trieste also went to the medical center where the bodies of the dead were transported to contact family members to provide specific consular assistance in such situations.

• “The Embassy of Romania in Rome and the Consulate General of Romania in Trieste continue the dialogue with the local authorities and will provide full support within their powers for the repatriation of the bodies of the deceased and the issuance of death certificates,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. also said

“The morgue of the Angel hospital is a building dug into the slope, about three hundred meters from the entrance to the reception department. All 21 bodies of the victims of the Mestre accident are here, in a row of funeral chambers, visible from afar through a large window. Entrance along a small alley starting from a well-kept lawn. Here, around 7:00 p.m., when the sky over Margera was already darkening, relatives of some of the dead appeared. There are six of them, a man and a woman between 30 and 60 years old, and they must have come here in a hurry, because they are dressed in shorts, T-shirts, flip flops and clogs. I’m from Eastern Europe, it’s hard to say where I’m from. Accompanied by two psychologists, they enter the morgue. Then they disappear from the landscape. Five minutes later, one of the women appears again in the corridor, probably the oldest, supported by a man. They both cry, she screams. He holds her in his arms. Then they return to the morgue,” reports Corriere della Sera.

Who are the other victims?

• Who are the Romanians who died in a terrible accident near Venice. All victims have been identified

They also recognized 9 Ukrainians, including 30-year-old Lyubov Shishkarova, spouses Iryna Pashenko and Yuliya Nemova, 70-year-old Vasyl Lomakin, 65-year-old Tetyana Beskoraynova, 12-year-old Anastasia Morozova, Daria Lomakina (10), Dmytro Serov (23). and Serhiy Beskorovainov (70).

The tragic accident also killed 3 Germans, including Siddharth’s 28-year-old husband, Jonathan Grass; Anne Elin Berger (22) and Charlotte Nima Fromherz, only one year.

Among the victims are an Italian, a bus driver, 40-year-old Alberto Rizzotto from Treviso, a Croatian Antonela Perkovic (25), two Portuguese: Maria Fernanda Arno Maciel (56) and Gualter Augusto Carvalhodo Maio (54 years old) and South African Annette Pearly Arendse (58 years old). ).

A love story with a tragic ending in Venice

The young Croatian Antonela Perković was on her honeymoon with her husband Marko Baković. Having married 20 days ago, the two chose Venice as their honeymoon destination. Her husband was injured and is in hospital in Veneto, in intensive care. The Index newspaper published a number of details that make the story even more dramatic. The couple got married three weeks ago in Split. The woman, the article says, was pregnant.

The couple arrived in Venice on Tuesday and boarded an electric bus at around 7:30 p.m. that left Tronchetto, Venice, and headed to Camping Hu in Margherita, where the newlyweds were to spend part of their honeymoon. As Tgcom24 reports, the condition of the 25-year-old man is improving, he will probably be transferred from the intensive care unit. He does not yet know that his wife is gone.

A driver who is proud of the race he took

Il Giornale di Vicenza writes about bus driver Alberto Rizzotto and his last message on Facebook, left an hour and a half before the tragedy: “Shuttle to Venice” (Race to Venice). It was going to be a day like any other for the 40-year-old man behind the wheel of the electric bus he had unveiled only a year ago. Instead, his name now appears on the list of 21 victims. His first employment contract dates back to 2014 with La Linea, today the main private road passenger transport group in the Veneto region. This in turn rented a bus from the Martini company to run between Venice and the campsite in Margherita, where the group of tourists was staying.

Alberto was an experienced driver and in good health, as confirmed by his last medical examination a year ago. What happened to explain his vehicle’s gradual drift to the right until it clipped the guardrail and flew off the overpass remains a mystery that only an autopsy will likely solve. Massimo Fiorese, CEO of La Linea, categorically rules out that the driver fell asleep: “He started his shift only two hours ago. The only plausible hypothesis, he says, remains the disease hypothesis.”

Brothers who lost their mother

Among the victims of the flames and wreckage of the bus was the youngest German girl, Charlotte Nima Fromherz, one and a half years old. Also among the youngest are teenagers Daria Lomakina, Anastasia Morozova from Ukraine, and Romanians Aurora Maria Ogrezianu and Georgiana Ogrezianu.

Many of the victims are relatives of the dead. A pair of brothers, aged three and 13, who were hospitalized in Treviso, lost their mother and the woman’s partner is among those hospitalized.

In addition to them, two more Germans were admitted to the hospital. At least six victims are Ukrainians. There is also a Frenchman, two Spaniards, a Russian and a citizen of the Arab Emirates. Some rested together, others were not familiar and only fate brought them together.

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