Three people are under investigation for the collapse of the building in the Pistunina district of Messina. The Prosecutor’s Office of the City of the Strait has notified three notices of investigation with an invitation to appear, hypothesizing the crimes of multiple manslaughter, removal of safety precautions against workplace accidents, and negligent disaster. So far, three bodies have been recovered from the rubble of the building. The identification of the third body by the family members is underway. Another three people are still missing.
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The investigation, coordinated by the Messina Prosecutor’s Office, is conducted by the provincial command carabinieri, the men of the Prevention and Safety Service in Work Environments (SPRESAL) of the ASP of Messina, and the firefighters of Messina. The suspects are believed to be the managers of the companies carrying out the work on the ground floor of the collapsed building and a technician.
Search for missing persons complicated by fire under the rubble
The search for the missing in the collapse of the building in Messina continues without pause. The firefighters have never stopped, after the discovery of the first two missing persons, the entrepreneur Carmelo Leone, 71, and his sister Rosa Leone. But the search is complicated by smoke coming from a fire smoldering under the rubble.
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Still missing are another sister of Carmelo, Sara; Rosa’s husband, Santino Magazzù, and a domestic helper who was with them, the Sri Lankan Lhairu Warnakulasuriya. Also missing is a saleswoman from the Chinese bazaar who was on the first floor of the building, the 21-year-old from Messina Alessandra Frazzica.
“I saw death in the face, I don’t know how I am alive,” says one of the three injured, Davide Lambiate, 26, on his third day of trial as a clerk in the Chinese bazaar where Alessandra worked. The other two injured are workers from the company that was renovating the premises of a supermarket on the ground floor.
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