Death of Andrea Prospero, arrested a young man for instigation or help to suicide

Almost two months after the tragic death of Andrea Prospero, the eighteen -year -old student from Lanciano found lifeless in Perugia on January 29, there is a turning point. The Public Prosecutor of Perugia has announced The arrest of a young resident in the province of Rome, accused of instigation or help to suicide.

Andrea had been found dead in a room rented in the city center, after taking an excessive amount of drugs. But next to him they were also found Five cell phones, sixty sim cardstwo credit cards not registered to him and 10 thousand euros in cash. The presence of all those electronic devices and telephone cards immediately made one think of a more complex context than that of personal tragedy.

A situation that prompted investigators to deepen above all the computer track. “A complicated investigation», Explained the prosecutor Raffaele Cantone,”All made using the data on mobile phones and IT systems. We are only at the first piece. The investigation must in fact continue to understand a whole series of issues concerning the presence of SIMs and multiple cell phones. And above all because there was the use of this apartment by a boy who did not seem to have no reasons. “

But in relatively quick times we arrived at the first arrest: “In two months we believe we have identified the possible author of the help to suicide. Although obviously the presumption of innocence applies ».

The second investigated

The arrested young man is now under house arrest, but he is not the only one involved. The Prosecutor has in fact confirmed the existence of A second investigated, this time for the sale of an opiate medicine. «This morning a search was performed in Campania against A young man who we believe to be the one who sold the medicine»Added Cantone. “He does not respond to the same crime because he was obviously unable to know the reason why Prospero used it.”

Andrea Prospero studied computer science at the University of Perugia. He stayed in a hostel, but in recent times he had chosen to rent a private room, the one in which he was found lifeless.

Not to believe the suicide version is also the boy’s father, Michele Prosperowho on several occasions asked to shed full light on the story: “Please, tell me who my son was”. And in an interview a Republic He added: «I don’t think my son has committed suicide at all. Either they killed him or, at most, they led him to do it. It is clear that Andrea must have ended up in some bad tour that none of us really had any scent. Whatever the truth, even the worst, I need to know to go on ».

Now, with the first arrest, the investigations enter a new phase. But many questions remain open.