Ravenna, 28 April 2024 – He was found dead late yesterday morning, in the kitchen of the apartment where he lived in the family condominium at number 21 via Antica Zeccaright in the center of Ravenna. Gianfranco Benini, 86 years old to be completed in June, he reported burns in the body and the kitchen was on fire but the fire was extinguished when help arrived.
The alarm was raised by Grandchild who, having arrived late yesterday morning to visit his mother who lives in another apartment in the same condominium, smelled a strong burning smell. The man immediately tried to call his uncle but, seeing that he didn’t answer, he entered the apartment where he lived, on the second floor of the apartment building, e he found him on the floor in the burned kitchen. The firefighters rushed to the scene, arriving with a team from Ravenna, and the police officers, who arrived with two patrols, as well as the 118 operators with the doctor who was unable to do anything other than confirm the death of the elderly. Scientific police officers also subsequently intervened on site for the findings carried out together with the firefighters, while the prosecutor on duty Angela Scorza was notified who will decide on the arrangement of the autopsy and on the opening of a file. Subsequently, the prefect Castrese De Rosa also arrived.
Excluding the work of third parties, they are There are several hypotheses being examined by investigators on what happened in via Antica Zecca: from illness while Gianfranco Benini was busy cooking at a domestic accident which would have led the elderly man to burn himself, to the point of dying from the smoke fumes from the fire which spread to some objects in the kitchen.
Yesterday afternoon, many people, seeing the police cars and the fire truck parked inside and at the entrance to via Antica Zecca, stopped to ask for information and someone, hearing the name of Gianfranco Benini, said remembered “the artist” for his character and imaginative attitude.
Those who knew him best said that the elderly man he had studied architecture but, despite having excellent abilities, he had never finished his studies and obtained the scientific exams and the degree; so he had never been registered with the Order provincial architects. However, precisely because of the brilliance that characterized him on the subject, he had personally contributed to the design of the condominium where he unfortunately met his death.
