Overview

• Carabinieri have excluded foul play in the July 8 diving accident that killed 36-year-old Fabio Marchioni at the Dardagna torrent.
• Authorities are awaiting autopsy findings to determine the precise cause of Fabio’s fatal head injury.
• Hours after his son’s death, patriarch Aurelio Marchioni was found dead under a bridge in Fanano in an apparent suicide driven by grief.
• The multigenerational Marchioni family has operated the historic Hotel del Corso in Sestola and previously suffered the loss of a young daughter.
• The Comune di Sestola has declared municipal mourning and called off all scheduled town and weekend events in the Monte Cimone area.