Overview
- Salvatore Riccobene died after about a month in hospital following head trauma and rib fractures suffered when he intervened to help a neighbor allegedly harassed by another resident.
- The confrontation occurred on September 20 in a public-housing courtyard in Mortara, where the 90-year-old fell during a scuffle after stepping in to defend the woman.
- Prosecutors in Pavia opened an investigative file led by deputy prosecutor Chiara Giuiusa and notified the neighbor identified in reports as Giorgio Labarbuta as under investigation.
- An autopsy was ordered to determine whether the injuries from the clash caused the death in a way that supports a preterintentional homicide theory.
- Labarbuta, reported as 57 years old, had previously been the subject of multiple complaints for alleged stalking by the woman at the center of the dispute.