We want to know how she died.” The family of Vera Slepoj clarifies this in an official statement. «An autopsy is essential for goats as they died a woman in perfect health. All the conjectures that are circulating, regarding motives and causes are not plausible.”
Started at 2.30 pm yesterday, Wednesday 26 June, with Professor Raffaele De Caro at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Padua, the autopsy, ordered by the prosecutor Andrea Girlandoowner of the file opened with the hypothesis of manslaughter, but without anyone registered in the register of suspects, ended after more than four hours. It will take three months to know the outcome.
The death
True Slepoj70 years old, psychologist, psychotherapist, creator and animator of cultural projects, university professor, culture councilor of the Province of Padua from 1999 to 2004, she died on thursday night (June 20) in his home in Piazza del Santo a Padua, after returning at 11.30pm from a Lions Club dinner, where she spoke on the topic of volunteering. To accompany her home, one of her closest friends, Ludovica Casellati, daughter of minister Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. She was the maid to find the psychologist’s body in the morning. Next to her, her dogs Bubi and Nutti, crying. Dead hours ago, Slepoj, he had black legsnormal phenomenon of hypostasis, stagnation of blood in the lower limbs, which occurs after death.
The funeral in the Basilica
Originally from Portogruaro, where her sister Rosanna and her 100-year-old mother Regina still live, Vera Slepoj has always lived in Padua and on May 3rd she celebrated her 70th birthday, with her closest friends, as she usually did. Disbelief and dismay, tEveryone remembers her full of energy, with iron health. And even on the evening of her death she was very well, according to the testimonies of her friends. At the Lions dinner he laughed, joked and talked all evening. Writer, he investigated feelings in his essaysincluding the two best sellers «The psychology of love» (Mondadori) and «Understanding feelings». The psychologist’s funeral has been set for tomorrow (Friday 28th) at 3.30 pm in the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, they will be celebrated by Father Antonio Ramina, rector of the Basilica. I am Hundreds of people from all over Italy were expected and even from abroad, she was well known both as a professional and as a creator of cultural events.
The family note
The domes of the Saint were the backdrop to the moments of free time that Slepoj loved to spend with his little dogs and cats in the garden of his house in Padua, next to the Basilica and in that place that the family loved, he wants to say his final goodbyes. The official note released yesterday clear the field up possible complications related to a mini-outpatient surgery on the knee for the removal of a cyst, which Vera Slepoj underwent on May 20th in a clinic in the Venetian area. On Monday 17 June she then returned to the clinic for a check-up.
The family’s lawyer, Massimo Munari, reiterates: «Every conjecture that is circulating regarding motives and causes is implausible, only after the autopsy findings will something be known about the causes of death. Only investigations will be able to clarify the facts, beyond any conjecture.” Among the people who have expressed sorrow over the psychologist’s death in recent days is the minister Elisabetta Casellati, a close friend of hers, with whom she also planned to write a book together on their professional and human stories. .
