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Parliamentary Panel Shifts to Homicide Track in David Rossi Case After New Forensic Tests

New analysis of a torn wristwatch and wrist lesions presented alongside a 3D fall reconstruction fuels demands to reopen the inquiry.

Overview

  • Commission president Gianluca Vinci said the working track is now homicide or homicide linked to another offense after experts briefed the panel.
  • RIS lieutenant colonel Adolfo Gregori told the commission that, at the moment Rossi fell, someone was holding him by the left wrist from the balcony.
  • The latest perizia examined the fall dynamics, tested the strength of Rossi’s watch strap, and reviewed video showing the watch components falling separately from the body.
  • An engineer’s simulation using an anthropomorphic virtual model with updated Virtual Crash software reported about 95% incompatibility with a voluntary fall and posited that Rossi was held and then released.
  • The new findings challenge a 2022 Sapienza/RIS super-expertise that deemed the death compatible with suicide, prompting family members and MPs to push for prosecutors to reopen the criminal investigation and to hear the new experts.