New hypotheses on the death of Andrea Mirabile , the Palermo child who died during a holiday with his parents in Sharm el Sheikh on 2 July. The baby may have died of toxic contact poisoning .
That of food poisoning, one of the first leads to be considered by Egyptian doctors, did not convince the prosecutors. In fact, the Prosecutor of Palermo wanted from the beginning to reconstruct the couple's movements to understand whether it was really ingested food or something else that killed the baby .
After the presentation of a complaint by the victim's family, the coroner, who carried out the autopsy on the child's body, asked to be able to view the report made by the Egyptian colleague who carried out the first investigations on the body. The Egyptian coroner's report ended up on the desk of the prosecutor who coordinates the investigation, and who commissioned an interpreter to translate it. Two hundred pages full of data that will be sent to the prosecutor's consultant who will only then be able to complete his job.
According to what has been learned, although the data available are not complete, the thesis according to which the child would have died of food poisoning and what determined the death was contact poisoning would take shape, but it remains to be understood what was the lethal toxic substance.
(Unioneonline/vf)
