it is the 25th suicide of the year among uniformed personnel

A new suicide for a member of the armed forces. To take his own life yesterday Giovanni Devillanova, 53 year old lieutenant colonel of the Italian Army who shot himself with the service pistol in Putignano, in the province of Bari. “This tragic event – ​​commented the Single Military Union (SUM) – adds to the long list of police and armed forces personnel who have taken their own lives this year. The officer was serving service in Rome at the 6 Pioneer Engineer Regiment, after having been employed, in recent years, in other institutions in the capital where his strong professionalism had to be valorised (he was a graduate in civil transport engineering and qualified for the profession)”.

“Apart from the problems that may arise at a private level – adds Sum – we think that the time has come to invest resources to investigate the malaise within the Armed Forces, where some factors added to personal difficulties can sometimes culminate in tragedies of This guy. We join in the condolences of his family.”

According to what the agency learned, the man would have had difficulties related to employment and the stress of commuting Rome-Bari: the lieutenant colonel in fact would have found serenity in the infrastructure department of the Apulian city, to then be transferred to the capital. A capable engineer had found himself – according to testimonies – thrown into a small room of the Engineers regiment and they would have denied him the 104.

Giovanni Devillanova’s is the twenty-fifth suicide of 2024 among men and women wearing a uniform. As the Observatory explains (edited by Cleto Iafrate), that of the 53-year-old was the third episode of the month of May alone after the suicides of a local police officer from Palermo and a brigadier of the Guardia di Finanza; everyone decided to end it by using the service pistol