Genoa, the father of Edoardo, fifteen who died after playing boxing: “It’s nobody’s fault”

“It’s nobody’s fault” if the fifteen-year-old Edoardo Addezio died. This was stated by his father, Enrico, who believes that on Saturday evening, in Genoa, in that apartment in the Castelletto residential district, nothing happened except an accident.

The boy was spending the evening with his old friends, about fifteen, and at a certain point some of them began to simulate a boxing tournament with boxing gloves they had found at home. It’s around 10.30 pm when Edoardo stands in front of a friend to pretend he’s starting a match in the ring. The two don’t really hit each other, they play dodge. But the 15-year-old warns a pain in the chest, he slumps and falls on the ground banging his head.

The carabinieri from the mobile unit and colleagues from the investigation department of the Genoa Company arrive and check the apartment, to then rule out that the boys have used drugs. There are only a few empty beer bottles. The deputy prosecutor of the prosecutor’s office at the Juvenile Court has ordered the autopsywhich will be held in the next few hours.

“I don’t know, it’s possible. I’m told the boxing gloves have been found. Maybe they were playing», says Enrico Addezio a The print. «I repeat, I think an accident has occurred, of which no one is to blame. I really don’t think anyone was drinking.’

In these hours it has also been written that Edoardo had heart disease, but his father denies it. as a child, he had been operated on at Gaslini for a malformation, and could not do competitive activity, «but for a bureaucratic issue, as the doctors told me. But he always did whatever he wanted. He played tennis and soccer. He swam and went skiing. He made his visits and was subjected to constant checks ». It’s still: “Reading about Edoardo’s heart problems was painfulalmost as if it was somehow his fault or if he had brought it on ».

Toward Edoardo’s friends who were with him on Saturday evening, Enrico Addezio says he feels “enormous compassion”. He is convinced that investigating further is useless: «Precisely because there is no one responsible for what happened, I don’t feel like going into the details of the dynamics. It certainly wasn’t a conflict situation. I don’t wish anyone to face such a thing.”