Tragedy at the Catholic University of Milan: what happened
Dismay this morning at the Catholic University of Milan, where the rector of the prestigious Italian university was awaited as every day. Franco Anelli took his own life. On Thursday 23 May he was thrown from the sixth floor of the building where he lived in the center of Milan, falling into the internal courtyard. The news was only released the following morning.
He was 60 years old rector of the Catholic University of Milan: he had held this role since 2013. The terrible news was announced by his university, which spread the news of his passing.
The entire community of the University of the Catholic University and the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli Irccs, to which he had dedicated his entire life, expresses its condolences to his mother and her closest loved ones.
Franco Anelli was born in Piacenza on 26 June 1963: in just over a month he would have turned 61. He was an Italian jurist and lawyer rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart from 1 January 2013, succeeding Lorenzo Ornaghi.
He graduated from the “Lorenzo Respighi” Scientific High School in Piacenza in 1982. He then graduated in law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where he also obtained a PhD in commercial law. In 1991 he passed the state exam to become a lawyer, becoming a member of the Supreme Court of Cassation in 1998.
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Franco Anelli jumped from the sixth floor
According to what was reconstructed by the Carabinieri, who immediately reached the place where the rector decided to take his own life, the 60-year-old jumped from the sixth floor of a building in the center of Milan where he lived. The intervention of other people is excluded.
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On site, in addition to the Carabinieri and the medical examiner, also the 118 operators, who, however, could not help but confirm the death of the rector. The body was found late in the evening of Thursday 23 May 2024. Investigators did not find any messages or suicide notes.
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