ilgiornaledelfriuli -- LECCE Davide Ricciuto was enlisted as a volunteer in just 18 years to find a stable job after military service she had left Tiggiano, one of the smallest countries in the Leccese, who yesterday at the news of his death has been poured out on the street .

Everyone who knew him, childhood friends, acquaintances and even those who had only heard of him, silently reached via Genoa, where he lives and where the family of Corporal David was returning whenever he could.

The news that was among the victims of the attack was brought to parents by the commander of the Cavalry School in Lecce. Soon after were the mayor and the pastor of the first to join in the sorrow of the family. Ricchiuto, 26, was the second of three children. The elder brother, Ippazio, is the chef in Verona and is soon back in Salento.

Then there is the younger sister Anna Lucia. It is a simple family: his father Angelo, a young man who had emigrated to Switzerland, where David was born, has long since returned to their home country with his family and works for a construction company.

The mother is housewife. Ricci, under the 186.o Folgore regiment as a driver, was the third mission abroad. Before that in Afghanistan was already in Kosovo and Lebanon.

Friends tell him he was a person "joyful, cheerful and full of life." Unison Tiggiano friends to remember that he was born to be a soldier. Friends when he left, he said. "If I die I die as a lion and a sheep."

He was expected home by the end of August in Kabul but since there had been a shortage of drivers, the license had not been granted any longer.