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Ok, the 'draws question maybe wasn't supposed to be rhetorical, we've all done it, but this instance is a situation where I wouldn't expect it to be done. A 'non-climbing mum' assembling quickdraws at a sport crag? Most unusual.
An instructor who isn't an 'official' instructor? Although the article doesn't give a definition of what is classed as official, perhaps under Italian rules, he was only qualified for indoor walls?
No one noticing the problem with the quickdraws? Neither the 'instructor' or the prodigy climber? The kid had been climbing for several years and would have been familiar with the equipment.
None of these oversights by themselves would be classed as bizarre, but put them all together and you get a bizarre series of events that lead to the death of a climber.