Overview

• Juvenile prosecutors in Rome are investigating possible instigation or assistance to suicide, focusing on classmates’ conduct and the school’s response.
• Carabinieri have confiscated students’ phones and Paolo’s devices, including an Xbox, to extract messages and call records for analysis.
• The Lazio regional school office and the Education Ministry have opened inspections of the schools Paolo attended, with hearings of administrators and teachers under way.
• Local officials arranged psychological support at the institute and scheduled a candlelight vigil on Saturday evening in Santi Cosma e Damiano with the Gaeta bishop.
• Family accounts and retrieved chats describe years of harassment, while reports from the funeral and a witness’s remark suggest a troubling climate among some peers and parents.