the imperfect murder – Giampaolo Amato, a 64-year-old former basketball virtus doctor, was…

Extract from Luca Muleo’s article for www.corriere.it

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A 64-year-old doctor, Giampaolo Amato, was arrested by the Bologna carabinieri on charges of killing his 62-year-old wife on October 31, 2021, with a lethal mix of sedatives and anesthetics. That day it was the man who raised the alarm by calling 112 and the health workers. The professional is well known in the city as he collaborated with the Virtus basketball team for seven years.

Investigations that lasted two years and the accusation: “Benzodiazepines to his wife”

The military carried out a precautionary custody order in prison on charges of murder, embezzlement and illegal possession of psychotropic drugs. The investigations, which lasted two years, revealed in the causes of death a malicious administration of benzodiazepines and a particular hospital anesthetic.

She was also a doctor: he worked with Virtus

The arrested doctor, specialized in ophthalmology and sports medicine and former club doctor of Virtus Pallacanestro, from 2013 to 2020. His wife, also a doctor, was called Isabella Lsalad and was a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics.

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[…] The doctors ascertained the death, initially attributed to natural causes.

During the same investigations it would have emerged that a few years earlier the woman may have been subjected to other administrations of benzodiazepine without her knowledge, which are supposedly attributable to her husband and never reported, and which had caused her episodes of malaise and narcolepsy. […]