Overview
- Initial findings from the autopsy at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli indicate cardiac arrest due to pulmonary asphyxia as the likely cause of death, pending toxicology confirmation.
- Forensic doctors documented numerous injuries on Minghetti consistent with burns and trampling by the crowd.
- The medical-legal work at Gemelli is being conducted by a Rome team that includes Professors Fabio De Giorgio and Antonio Oliva, with radiology and toxicology underway.
- Rome prosecutors reassigned Emanuele Galeppini’s examinations to Gemelli, with a CT set for January 19 and an autopsy on January 20 to be performed by Professor Antonio Oliva.
- The investigation led by Rome prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi covers multiple manslaughter, fire, disaster, and serious-injury offenses, as Swiss judges keep venue owner Jacques Moretti in three months’ preventive detention and Italy moves to join proceedings as a civil party.