The Padua Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an autopsy on the body of psychologist Vera Slepoj, who died during the night between Thursday 20 and Friday 21 June at the age of 70. The magistrates have opened a case for manslaughter to clarify the circumstances of the sudden death of the professional who, in the 1990s, at the request of the then president of Palermo Giovanni Ferrara, followed all the players of Palermo, who were playing in Serie C at the time.
When Ferrara sent the Palermo players to Vera Slepoj’s table
A somewhat surprising decision by the magistrates, given that initially there was immediate talk of a sudden heart attack and there didn’t seem to be any mystery to clarify, so much so that the date of the funeral had already been set. Which will now have to be postponed until after the autopsy. The well-known psychologist was found lifeless by her maid. Her family reports the Corriere del Veneto – she entrusted herself to the lawyer Massimo Munari and maintains that Slepoj was in good health and that in recent months he had only had some infiltrations on his knee.
Slepoj graduated in Psychology in 1977 at the University of Padua, with a thesis entitled “Deviance and control mechanisms in a current society”. She then had a lot of notoriety and media visibility, coordinating among other things a column in the magazine Riza Psicosomatica, and was a columnist for various newspapers. You also had political commitments, first with the Alleanza Nazionale at the 1999 European elections, then with the UDC in the Senate in 2006. You were then a psychological consultant in the ranks of Palermo Calcio in the 1999/2000 season. Her roles as president of the Italian Federation of Psychologists and of the International Health Observatory are prestigious, as well as her professorship in Sociology of Health at the University of Siena.
