Death of Leonardo Lamma: the prosecutor’s office requests the indictment of two municipal managers

Almost four years after the death of Leonardo Lamma, who passed away on 7 April 2022 in a road accident in Corso Francia, the prosecutor’s office has requested the indictment of four managers, two municipal and two from Acea, on charges of road homicide

Dynamics of the tragedy according to the prosecution.

Lamma, according to the prosecution, would have lost control of the motorbike on a hill that needed to be cleared after the closure of a chasm, which had opened due to the rupture of a pipe. Temporary repair, moreover, which according to the prosecutor’s office should have been reported to alert motorcyclists and drivers. Again according to the accusation, the hill should, however, have been cordoned off.

Who are the defendants who risk being sent to trial?

The preliminary hearing has been set for March 6, 2026. The head of the Cassia Group’s traffic police force, Barbara Luciani, is said to be responsible, first and foremost, for the tragic dynamics for the prosecutor’s office. Andrea Ruggeri, director of Simu at the time, who was also involved in the deaths of Gaia and Beatrice, will also sit in the dock. Ruggeri’s role, despite himself, is also central in another trial. The manager was in fact sent to trial for the disappearance of Gaia and Beatrice, who died on 12 July 2022 due to a jump in lanes on the ring road which, according to the prosecution, was caused by the absence of a guardrail at Via del Foro Italico. The list of those accused by prosecutor Attilio Pisani includes two Acea executives. The first is Maurizio Del Preposto, responsible for the restoration work on the road in Corso Francia following a broken pipe, and Luigi Romano, at the helm of the company that carried out the work on behalf of Acea.

The still to be clarified role of the driver of a van

Finally, there is a fifth accused in the death of Leonardo Lamma: Regison Manjali. That dramatic afternoon, the man was driving a van. One of his maneuvers may have confused Lamma, already in precarious balance after having passed over the hill, until he fell. For now, Manjali is only under investigation, the prosecutor’s office having requested a supplementary investigation against him. The procedural history of the case has been troubled from the very first steps.

Requests to archive the power of attorney are always rejected

The prosecutor’s office has in fact requested the dismissal three times, arguing that the bump, if Lamma passed over it with the vehicle, was not relevant to the tragedy. However, on the three occasions the parents of the 19 year old, Stefano and Paola Lamma, assisted by the lawyers Antonio De Fazi and Massimiliano Capuzi, opposed the investigators’ initiative, obtaining the rejection of the prosecutor’s requests by the investigating judge. The appointment of a new prosecution consultant, engineer Lucio Pinchera, allowed the turning point. In fact, engineer Pinchera established that the speed bump would be decisive. Lamma would have passed over it, the poor condition of the road surface would have prevented him from keeping the vehicle in balance and, at that point, he would have slipped on the asphalt until hitting the traffic divider. Conclusions which had already been reached some time ago by the consultants of Lamma’s parents, Francesco De Gennaro and Mario Scipione.

The friendship between Gaia, Camilla and Leonardo. The mural that remembers them.

Leonardo’s drama is linked to the tragedy of Gaia and Camilla. Lamma, a friend of Gaia, went with the two girls on the evening of 22 December 2019. The young women, upon returning home, were then hit by Corso Francia, on the pedestrian crossing near the T-Bone restaurant. Now a mural at the entrance to the viaduct remembers their tragedies.

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