Overview
- Prosecutors in Campobasso opened a criminal inquiry and placed five Cardarelli Hospital staff under investigation on suspected culpable homicide and negligent injury.
- Autopsies on Antonella Di Ielsi, 50, and her daughter Sara Di Vita, 15, are scheduled for Wednesday as investigators conduct laboratory and toxicological tests.
- Police seized foodstuffs, preserved jars and shellfish remnants from the family home, adding medical records to the probe led by the Campobasso mobile squad.
- The family reported illness after holiday meals featuring seafood, including mussels, and possibly mushrooms; other diners remained well, focusing attention on a smaller meal eaten only by the three.
- Hospital records show two prior emergency-department discharges with a gastroenteritis diagnosis before the rapid decline to acute liver failure and multiorgan failure; the father is stable under evaluation at Rome’s Spallanzani and the older daughter is asymptomatic under precautionary checks.