A new trial (after the documents were returned to the Tempio Prosecutor's Office) has been launched in the case of Silvana Gandola, the pensioner who vanished on the morning of March 28, 2021, from a beach in Aglientu (San Silverio) and died under circumstances that are still unclear. The elderly woman's remains were found by hunters on January 30, 2022.
Caregiver Elda Verbale, 64, charged with abandonment of an incapacitated and sick person, claims she never left the elderly woman alone during the excursion to Aglientu. The verdict in the summary proceedings could be announced by the summer. The victim's family, however, believes that the charges against the caregiver do not provide any closure to the case. According to the elderly woman 's relatives, the Tempio Prosecutor's Office's reconstruction of the case contains numerous unclear points.
The pensioner's daughter, Laura Rizzi, disputes the alleged incompleteness of some key parts of the investigative reconstruction. First, there is no evidence of the victim's presence in the area of her disappearance on the morning of March 28, 2021, a rugged location completely incompatible with Silvana Gandola's condition (a sick and frail person who would have walked on steep terrain wearing only a pair of ballet flats).
Since March 27, the day before her disappearance, the pensioner has been unreachable by phone. Even the discovery of Silvana Gandola's remains, according to her daughter, posed problems: trousers turned inside out, glasses propped up with the arms firmly closed, a watch with a metal strap completely undone.
Laura Rizzi, assisted by lawyer Francesco Rotella, believes that the only certainty is her mother's death after her disappearance, but she does not consider the "narrative" of an old woman getting lost in the woods acceptable.
