A video of the Lanciotto-Castelfiorentino match on April 14th during which the footballer Mattia Giani, 26, felt ill was acquired by the Florence Carabinieri. The young man died in hospital the next day. The video, now being examined by investigators, would constitute a useful document for the manslaughter investigation opened by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Mattia Giani
It was acquired by carabinieri of Florence a video from the Lanciotto-Castelfiorentino match of last April 14th during which the footballer Matthias Giani, 26 years old, he felt ill on the pitch. The young man is died in hospital the next day.
The video, now under investigation by investigators, was filmed by an operator appointed by another company in the same championship, Excellence category, to ‘study’ the possible opponents of the play out relegation.
The video would include the entire race until the moment of illnesswhich occurred approximately 14 minutes after the start of the match, and would also show thelast action by Mattia Giani, attacker, while running towards the opponent’s goal and kicking the ball. Then we would see the 26-year-old fall to the ground, then the arrival of help and the use of the defibrillator.
Mattia Giani, the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the death of the 26-year-old footballer for manslaughter
Mattia Giani
These images, as explained by the local newspaper There Nationcould constitute a useful document for the investigation homocide negligent, opened by the Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office and entrusted to the public prosecutor Giuseppe Ledda, who will serve to shed light on the death of the young footballer. At the moment there are no people registered in the register of suspects.
In recent days, theautopsy. The report of the examination, carried out by the medical examiner Beatrice Defraia at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Florence, will be filed in 90 days and will have to clarify the causes from the death of the player.
According to the 26-year-old’s family and friends, the rescue would not have been timely enough. In fact, it seems he was not present on site no doctor nor an ambulance with paramedics, it seems that the emergency services had to intervene from outside after the call to 118. On the football field there was instead a defibrillator which, however, according to the 26-year-old’s relatives, initially no one knew how to use.
There tragedy it deeply shocked those who knew the player. “Mattia’s last words before entering the pitch were: ‘Mister, don’t worry, I’ll score a goal and we’ll win the match'”, his coach, Nico Scardigli, said in an interview.
Mattia’s girlfriend, Sofia Caruso, instead she decided to greet him on social media with these words: “We were at the most beautiful moment, my love, but thank you for taking care of me and making me understand true love. You are and will always be the love of my life, Matti . I will love you forever and to infinity“.
