Found dead on the street, new crime hypothesis for the accused: manslaughter

PAVIA. The hearing to validate the arrest of Fausto Baiguera, 69, the pensioner arrested on charges of voluntary homicide for the death of Julio Antonio, took place this morning, Thursday 9 May, in the Torre del Gallo prison in Pavia. Rosario Santos, 36 years old, originally from the Dominican Republic. The public prosecutor asked for the suspect to be downgraded from voluntary homicide to manslaughter, to validate his arrest and to be placed in a nursing home as a precautionary measure. The lawyer Barbara Bertoni, the 69-year-old’s lawyer, asked for his release. The investigating judge reserved his decision, which he will make in the next few hours.

Last Monday, around 5am, Santos, who lived with Baiguera, was found by some passers-by on the pavement in front of the pensioner’s home in Viale Cremona, in a suburban area of ​​Pavia: he was unconscious, but still alive. The autopsy revealed that the main cause of death of the 36-year-old Dominican man was a cardiopulmonary infection. Baiguera was arrested by the police after reporting, in the interrogation, that he had hit his friend on the head and then dragged him out of the house. In the interrogation on Wednesday afternoon in prison, the pensioner gave a confusing account, demonstrating difficulty in understanding, unable to quantify how much time had passed since the event and not even identifying the place where he is currently located.