Overview

• Palermo prosecutors opened a formal instigation-to-suicide inquiry into Elio Bargione as a procedural step to allow him to appoint defense consultants.
• The initial autopsy carried out in Vienna did not determine whether Maniscalco’s fall from a third-floor balcony was self-inflicted or the result of violence.
• Records from Villa Sofia Cervello show that Maniscalco underwent an abortion in May and that doctors noted signs of physical aggression.
• Her funeral at Maria Santissima Consolatrice church proceeded without Bargione in attendance, with her family calling for fuller forensic cooperation from Austrian authorities.
• Investigators are collecting testimony, medical files and other evidence to reconstruct the circumstances leading up to her June 23 fall.