Milan, April 21, 2022 – «At first I thought I could handle this boy. However, in the last few minutes I was afraid: we risked an accident in a crowded street and got really hurt». Carla (fantasy name) has been driving a taxi in Milan for 14 years: on Tuesday evening she was behind the wheel of the white car she got into Achille Costacurta, the son of the former AC Milan defender and the national team, Alessandro Costacurta, and by model and TV presenter Martina Colombari.
A Nightmare ride of about half an hour, which the 18-year-old ended by attacking a local police officer who ended up in the emergency room with a punch to the face and was released with a seven-day prognosis. A raid that cost Costacurta Junior – who has just returned from a short holiday abroad Participation with the mother in the program “Beijing Express’ – a criminal complaint of resistance and violence against a public official. We return on Tuesday at 11pm. We are in the station area, in front of a restaurant: «I got there to take a radio taxi call – says Carla – . He got into the car: he was wearing a floral shirt, shorts and a straw hat, and he was carrying a trolley. I didn’t recognize him, I didn’t know who he was. He told me to take him to a club on Via Savona » Navigli area, exactly on the opposite side of town from the station area.
After a few minutes, the passenger begins to speak meaningless sentencesthen roll down the windows e Yelling at cyclists and passers-by: «I wasn’t worried, I wasn’t afraid that he might hurt me, but I understood that something was wrong. I stayed calm and said to myself, ‘Now I’ll take it to its destination and then I’ll leave as if nothing happened’”.
However, the situation is getting worse from kilometer to kilometer: “It started to tremble hit the inside of the doors, injuring his hands: he screamed and got more and more excited, he was completely frantic”. At the height of the columns of San Lorenzo, the eighteen year old He takes off his shoes and throws them on the street: «I had a police car in front of me – Carla’s reconstruction –. I said to the guy, ‘If you don’t calm down, I’ll stop her right away.’ At this point he froze for a moment. “Sorry, sorry,” he said, but after a few seconds he started back up exactly as before.”
And we are in via Savona, almost there: suddenly, Costacurta junior opens the door, although the car is still driving. “I I started screaming – explains the taxi driver -. He fell into the gap between the two front seats, slaps me on the shoulder (which still hurts) and snapping the dashcam on the dashboard: He said he couldn’t stand cameras. After this gesture I understood that I couldn’t go any further: we were in a street full of people for the Fuorisalone e We risked a crash endanger our life and that of passers-by.
Carla sees one in the distance police patrol and points firmly to her car to ask for help: «I got out and went up to them to explain the situation to them. He stayed in the car: at first he tried to get out, but the agents did not locked the doors waiting for colleagues to come to their aid. Then he squatted behind the seats and started pedaling.”
At this point it is 11:35 p.m: The cast try to get the 18-year-old out of the cab and there he is hit a non-commissioned officer slapped him under the eye: “They managed to immobilize him and take him to their offices: it was only when I formalized the complaint that I found out from the agents that it was Achille Costacurta”. Around 48 hours after the incident, Carla looks back on these minutes and reflects: «In many years of my career I have never encountered a situation like this: Yes, I have dealt with drunk guys, especially at the weekend, but on the other evening I was afraid. I feel sorry for that boy: I tried to have a motherly approach, it wasn’t enough.