• Florence, 2 Belgian brothers found dead as a parent in a hotel

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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 29 September 2019The two Belgian half-brothers found dead in a room of a four-star hotel in Florence, near the station in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, were called Dries and Robbe De Ceuster. The first, 27, was born in Geel; the second, 22, in Herentals.

It is confirmed that they were children of the same father and of different mothers. It was the father himself, on vacation with them in Florence with the current partner, who is not the mother of either of the two young men, who discovered their bodies lying on the bed without life in the afternoon, with some empty boxes of powerful painkillers next to them. this suggests the use of opiates, together with bottles of wine and traces of drugs as the cause of death. Moreover it is not excluded that the drugs have been badly cut. To know the reason for the death, we will have to wait for the answers of the toxicological exams immediately started and the certainty of the causes of death will be there only at the end of the investigations. The Flying Squad also identified the pharmacy that would sell the drugs without prescription, subjecting it to investigations.

To notice the death would have been just the father who, not seeing them or hearing them, would go to look for them in their room. He had gone there the first time in the morning, around 11.30. The investigators told the investigators that he had found them asleep. It is probable that the two boys had already died but the father did not notice it. The parent then went to the room a second time in the afternoon, discovering the lifeless bodies of the children.

Rescuers were called immediately but the 118 health workers could do nothing but verify the death. Police officers from the Flying Squad and the Scientific Police also arrived at the hotel and started the investigation. The investigators found no sign of forced entry into the room or signs of violence on the bodies of the two boys.

Investigators, however, have already heard Dries and Robbe's father, his companion, the hotel staff who were on duty as well as some guests of the facility. The policemen are also viewing the images recorded by the cameras inside and outside the hotel to reconstruct the last movements of the two and try to collect as many useful elements for the investigations.

According to what his father told him, last night the boys would have dined with him and his partner, only to return to the hotel together at around 10.30 pm. It is a question of understanding whether the two had already bought the drug previously or whether they have gone out again after greeting their father and partner. Investigators are reconstructing the movements of the two young people to try to trace back to whom they eventually met, in which places they went and who sold them the drugs. In the next few hours, the printouts of youth cell phones will also be acquired, to check incoming and outgoing calls and rebuild the last contacts.

The file is in the hands of the prosecutor Giacomo Pestelli who in the next few hours will entrust the autopsy on the bodies of the two twenties.