Overview

• Autopsy concluded that 30-year-old Riccardo Zappone died from internal hemorrhage due to closed thoracic trauma and that the taser played no role in his death
• The Pescara prosecutor’s office has indicted three individuals for aggravated assault after a brawl in a San Donato workshop preceded the police intervention
• Zappone, who was known to the Chieti mental health center and had a history of psychotic episodes, was subdued with an electric stun gun following resistance to officers
• Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has called for comprehensive reviews of the circumstances surrounding Zappone’s arrest and the use of the taser
• Zappone’s father has publicly questioned the necessity of the taser and why medical support was not summoned before his son was taken to the police station