Scout leader sentenced to pay a fine of 4 thousand euros for “superficiality, negligence and imprudence”says the court’s ruling according to what Corriere della Sera anticipated, which would have had a certain impact on the drowning death of Manuel Perez three years ago while doing the swimming together with the other scouts at Punta Chiappa in Camogli.
The 17-year-old boy residing in Lesmo suffered from epileptic seizures and precisely one of these attacks during a dive it cost him his life: he disappeared from sight and was fished out lifelessly by firefighters in August 2021.
Lesmo: scout leader fined and fatal swim at Punta Chiappa
After the death and the autopsy on the body, which confirmed death by drowning, subsequently an official lawsuit was opened by the prosecutor against the scout leader who had taken the boys of the Vimercate 1 Novizi Clan to the seaside in Liguria.
The disappearance of the 17 year old had generated great emotion in the town and many friends and acquaintances took part in the funeral in August 2021 in the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Lesmo, where the parish priest Don Mauro Viganò was there to celebrate the funeral.
Now, some time later, the sentence has arrived for the trial in which the 34-year-old scout leader was charged with a financial penalty for the tragic accident in the Ligurian sea.
