Breaking point in the case of the death of Andrea Prospero, the 19-year-old boy found dead in an apartment in the center of Perugia last January 29, after five days of searching.

The Perugia Public Prosecutor's Office has issued an order for house arrest against an eighteen-year-old resident in the province of Rome for the crime of "incitement or aiding suicide" .

Prospero, originally from Lanciano (Chieti), was attending the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Perugia. He had recently rented an apartment, after having lived in a hostel.

The cause of death was a lethal mix of benzodiazepines and oxycodone . The young man's family immediately rejected the idea of suicide, suspecting that someone had killed Andrea or at least pushed him to take his own life.

In the boy's house, the agents found five cell phones, 60 SIM cards and three credit cards not registered to him . For this reason, the investigation immediately focused on his possible involvement in illegal computer activities. "Please, tell me who my son was," this was the appeal that the father launched.

The family members have maintained from the beginning that Andrea was involved in a situation that was too big to get out of. For this reason they now welcome this turning point in the investigation with "satisfaction". The arrest, comments the lawyer Francesco Mangano who is assisting them, "seems to confirm what we have always maintained" .

Andrea had confided on the Internet to a "virtual friend" about his anxiety and impatience with his university life . A choice, that of suicide, in which he would have been "repeatedly incited and encouraged" by the 18-year-old who ended up under house arrest. The arrested young man has no criminal record and belongs to an "absolutely normal" family background, according to the investigators. According to them , Prospero confided in him that he did not have the courage to commit suicide, receiving "further encouragement" .