Inmate dies after losing 25 kg: investigation
Antonio Raddi, who died on 30 November 2019 of an infection. When he said he could not eat the prison workers were convinced that he was pretending
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When he said he could not eat, the prison workers believed he was faking it. But then Antonio Raddi, detained in the Vallette of Turin, on December 30, 2019, at the age of 28, died of a lung infection after losing 25 kilos of weight.
The case has now landed in court, where in a few days the request of the young man's family not to dismiss the investigation will be discussed.
The prosecutor in fact ordered a second technical consultation, after the first was not judged satisfactory. And this second opinion fears "inadequate care".
The investigation is coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Vincenzo Pacileo. The young man's parents entrusted themselves to the lawyers Massimo Pastore and Gianluca Vitale. The suspects are four.
The prosecutor proposed the dismissal because, although the new consultants stated that the weight loss should have been "countered differently even with the aid of specialized clinical and laboratory studies", insufficient evidence was collected to establish the responsibility of the Vallette medical staff, also because, apparently, the prisoner did not appear to be cooperative.
Raddi began claiming that he was having trouble eating in August. From the numerous testimonies it emerges that inside the prison many operators were convinced that this was not true.
On 14 December 2019 he was taken to the Maria Vittoria emergency room: the head physician certified his extreme state of malnutrition and, to the investigators, stressed that he had "never seen anything like this in 40 years".
(Unioneonline / lf)