Rome: Walking with his dad, he starts running and loses him. Autistic boy saved by the State Police on the ring road

He was doing a walking with autistic son of 17 years old when, suddenly, the boy he started running.

Antonio, who has been training regularly in the pool for 8 years, It took him very little to distance himself and, tireless like Forrest Gump, he lengthened his stride, disappearing from his father's sight.

Scared, the man alerted 112 (Single European Emergency Number).

From the moment of the report, the Police Headquarters operations center immediately sent out a radio message to the patrols present in the area to begin the search for the boy.

They were Roberta and Nicola, State Police officers on duty at the XV Ponte Milvio District, to intercept the little “Forrest Gump”.

Within a few hours, they spotted Antonio on the ring road. At that point they approached him and tried to communicate with him to trace the father's personal details. After a while, the young Forrest was in his parents' arms.

During his unstoppable run he had lost a shoe, but he was cheerful and amused: after all, as he later revealed smiling to the policemen, he had only been looking for trains and ships to admire.

Dad Enrico and mom Marina, on the other hand, had lost a few years of their life in those hours, but, according to them, it was easy to recover them as soon as they stopped at the scene of Antonio chatting with his life-saving agents "as if they were old friends".

In fact, they added at the time of clicking the Memory picture, “you have become friends and we too will always carry you in our hearts”.