Disabled drowns in the pool in Milan. He was taking a swimming course, the rescue was in vain

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It was his regular Tuesday appointment. From 14.30 to 15.30, together with another ten guests from the community for the disabled, he attended a swimming course in the municipal swimming pool of Milan, in via Lamennais, in the Quarto Cagnino district.

The lesson was halfway through when 32-year-old Davide Duma, an orphan and entrusted to a support administrator of the Municipality, left the group and ended up in a point where the water was deeper. It only took a few seconds, he started drinking and disappeared underwater. According to what was reconstructed by the police, an instructor from the community intervened practically immediately but Duma already had full lungs and when he was taken to dry he was in cardiac arrest. The paramedics managed to revive him on the spot thanks to the use of a defibrillator, but on his arrival at the San Carlo hospital the conditions were desperate. Around 5.30 pm death was declared.

The prosecutor Antonia Pavan arranged the autopsy and a series of investigations to reconstruct the dynamic, at the moment the file on his desk hypothesizes the crime of manslaughter against unknown persons. One of the points to be clarified concerns the opportunity to entrust a single instructor with a course with 10 people with physical and mental disabilities.

From the Municipality they inform that during the lesson the swimming pool is closed to the public, that two lanes are reserved for the group and that the staff employed is "qualified and certified by the Italian Swimming Federation". They are not municipal employees, but directly from the community "Le Ke di Casa" of Muggiano, a non-profit organization that since 2005 has been dealing with people with various disabilities with whom it carries out "independent life projects".