Two years after her burial in the Sant'Anna cemetery in Trieste, Liliana Resinovich's body will be exhumed. An "appropriate" procedure, according to the consultant of the Trieste Prosecutor's Office, the forensic anthropologist Cristina Cattaneo, who was entrusted with the task of drawing up a medico-legal report to clarify the causes that led to the death of the 63-year-old.
The hope of Liliana's brother, Sergio, is that now "we arrive at the truth". Her husband Sebastiano Visintin is also waiting for "answers".
The deputy prosecutor in charge of the proceedings, Maddalena Chergia, «has arranged for the assignment of the task of exhuming Liliana Resinovich's body to a panel of consultants through the non-repeatable technical assessment procedure». The experts are called for the end of the month. The mandate to the pathologist provides for the drafting of a new consultation that ascertains the lesions found on the woman's body, their origin, the means that produced them, the dating and any other useful element to qualify the death as a consequence of a suicidal action or an event attributable to a third party.
Cattaneo - who in the past had dealt with cases such as those of Yara Gambirasio, David Rossi, Stefano Cucchi and Elisa Claps - assumed the role after the investigating judge of the Court of Trieste Luigi Dainotti last June rejected the request for dismissal on the case, advanced by the Prosecutor's Office, and ordered a supplementary investigation, proceeding no longer for kidnapping but for murder and indicating 25 points of new investigations.
Therefore new medico-legal tests, analysis of the accounts and digital devices of all the people involved - in particular Sebastiano Visintin and the man to whom Liliana was emotionally linked, Claudio Sterpin - DNA comparisons, interviews of various people.
Liliana Resinovich disappeared from her home in via Verrocchio in Trieste on 14 December 2021. Her body was found about twenty days later, on 5 January 2022, in the grove of the former psychiatric hospital of San Giovanni, not far from her home. He was lying among the vegetation with a plastic bag on his head, tied by a string, and closed in two black bags, inserted from above and below respectively. According to the autopsy, the woman died of "acute heart failure"; no "traumas at the hands of others capable of justifying the death" had been detected. Further investigations by the flying squad, appraisals and checks, which took place over time, led the Prosecutor's Office, last February, to request the dismissal of the case, establishing that the removal from the home, like the death, had been intentional. An epilogue which, however, the family members have always rejected, opposing it before the investigating judge. The hypothesis of suicide was never taken into consideration by Sergio Resinovich. Today's news therefore lights up new hope in him.
(Unioneonline)