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Prosecutors in Siena are comparing the video that appeared in the New York Post with the one held on file by Italian investigators since 2013, when the Monte Paschi di Siena (MPS) bank executive David Rossi fell to his death from his office window.
Cuts made to video
The footage, taken by a surveillance camera in an alleyway, is awaiting analysis by magistrates. According to rumours, the new video, in which Rossi falls and is then seen lying on the ground, still alive, may have been edited, with some parts of the sequence cut. This adds further mystery to an inquiry that was closed last year, only to be reopened by order of the new prosecutor, Salvatore Vitiello.
The two men in the video will be re-interviewed
In a statement, the prosecutor of Siena said that the video on the fall of David Rossi “being circulated on the internet corresponds to the one already acquired during the investigation”. Moreover, the two men seen near Rossi’s body in the video footage were already interviewed in the first phase of the investigation. “For final confirmation and to avoid any further speculation, we have decided to re-interview the two men in the video as part of the new investigation,” wrote the prosecutor. The two people in question are Giancarlo Filippone and Bernardo Mingrone. The first, seen wearing a padded jacket, was a colleague and friend of David Rossi, while Mingrone, who is wearing a coat and remains in the background, was at the time a senior executive in the MPS finance department.
Who gave the video to the New York Post?
According to an initial study of the video clip, the two men seen near the body are those identified on the evening of Rossi’s death, and may have been responsible for raising the alarm. It is important to find out who gave the video clip to the New York Post, in an attempt to present a different reconstruction of events from that previously established.
Simulation of the fall
Rossi’s body was exhumed in the Laterino cemetery in Siena in April, and then taken for tests to Labanof, the anthropology and forensic odontology lab in Milan. On 25 June, investigators will simulate the fall of the body, and make an inspection of the bank’s offices. The Rossi family has never believed that David committed suicide, and it was his wife Antonella Tognazzi, convinced that her husband was murdered, who insisted that the prosecutor reopen the case.
English translation by Simon Tanner
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