For his family, the isolation and the “primitive” and “inhuman” measures to which he had been subjected for three days would have prompted Claudio to take his own life
The American police confirmed that Claudio Mandia was found dead, on February 17 morning, in a room on the international campus where he was studying and that the cause is suicide. The Mount Pleasant Police Department, Westchester County, where the EF Academy is located, released a statement in which they reconstructed the moment the boy’s body was found.
«At 9.37 am on February 17 – the department writes – a 911 phone call was received which reported the suicide of a person. Officers and medical staff went to the school and then taken to the dormitory rooms, which is next to the main building. Once inside the room, the agents found a 17-year-old boy dead. The cause appears to be hanging. An investigation was immediately launched ».
Claudio’s parents arrived a few hours later, around 3 pm, at JF Kennedy International Airport in New York. A police department representative and a school official gave them the news of their son’s death. The autopsy was done and the results “are expected in a few days”.
Mandia had been detained and expelled on charges of copying important written evidence. According to what has been reconstructed in recent days, the management would have put the boy in solitary confinement, and without custody, awaiting his parents, whose arrival had already been planned for some time, because the family – his father Mauro Mandia, an entrepreneur from Battipaglia, mother, Elisabetta Benesatto, teacher, and the three daughters – had arrived to celebrate the boy’s 18th birthday. The isolation and the “primitive” and “inhuman” measures to which he had been subjected for three days, says the family, would have pushed Claudio to take his own life. For this the parents have decided to rely on the lawyers, led by George Bochetto. Meanwhile, the police have given the green light for the body to return to Italy. The funeral is expected in the next few days.
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