• Suspect deaths in the ward in Saronno, the doctor and nurse lover accused of 5 murders
  • Suspicious deaths, doctor and nurse arrested in Saronno, including her husband, alleged victims
  • The killer lovers of Saronno. Her to the doctor: if you want, I'll kill the children too

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01 December 2016 There are seven nurses employed by the Saronno (Varese) hospital who admitted to having heard of the "Cazzaniga protocol", applied to the patients of the Saronno Emergency Department by the anesthesiologist Leonardo Cazzaniga, arrested yesterday for four alleged ward murders , once called by the Saronno carabinieri. According to the findings of the investigators who, coordinated by the Prosecutor of Busto Arsizio, have reconstructed the alleged homicidal act of the doctor in the emergency room (and then also the alleged competition in the murder of the husband of his partner and nurse Laura Taroni, also arrested), the the health management had not listened to two nurses who had reported anomalies in the way Cazzaniga worked. Others, however, perhaps out of fear, would have kept silent. "Leonardo is surely a capable doctor, he has never made a secret of his particular vision of medical practice, I do not know that in any of the suspicious cases there has been a request from patients to end their life". It is the testimony of one of the nurses heard by the investigators. In an interception after being heard on the record, a doctor comments on the story saying "there is a dissociation between what the nurse writes and what he writes (...) seeing the report I was left (...) I wanted to tell him that this is not done ".


The delusions of killer lovers: "I want to kill", "I am God"

"I sometimes have this desire to kill someone, I need it." To speak is Laura Taroni, the killer nurse of the Saronno Hospital, a few lines intercepted by the carabinieri of the Saronno operational unit from which all the "criminal conviction" of the woman emerges, as the investigators have defined it. The woman allegedly killed her husband with the help of the doctor-lover on whom the accusation of multiple voluntary murder for four other deaths that occurred in the emergency room of Saronno also hangs. According to some witnesses, Cazzaniga has repeatedly cited his "protocol" to accelerate the death of the sick people. "With this patient I unfold my wings of the angel of death", "I am God", he said. The banality of evil combined with the delusion of omnipotence also emerges in the dialogues between the mother and her two children. "Murder has to be something they don't find you for; if they find you go to jail," explains the woman. You have to, he warns, "think it well, it's not that you wake up in the morning and say 'ah, I'm going to cut edge', no!". "The only perfect murder is drug murder," he concludes definitively. "Humanly depressing reading" dialogues, investigators write. Then, when the diabolical couple begins to suspect ongoing investigations, they simulate an interrogation, reason about the evidence in the hands of the investigators. Cazzaniga comes to congratulate the nurse on the decision to cremate her husband's body. "Then you had an excellent idea above all," he says. The two feel safe. "There really are no elements, understand? They must have some burning evidence to exhume the ashes, and in case to exhume the corpses, not the ashes," says the doctor in another passage of the same interception. "They can't build anything from cremation," she reassures him.

Other suspicious deaths are being investigated

An investigation destined not to close quickly, the one that led to the arrest of the anesthesiologist doctor. To date, the file of investigations carried out by the Saronno carabinieri, coordinated by the Chief Prosecutor of Busto Arsizio, Gianluigi Fontana, and by the substitute Cristina Ria, concerns cases between 2012 and 2013. Investigators, after having sifted through numerous cases managed in the emergency room by Dr. Cazzaniga, however, they believe that the number could increase considerably. There are two cases on which the carabinieri are already at work: that of the death of Taroni's mother and that of Cazzaniga's father. The former died at home, the latter died in the emergency room, just as her son was on duty. In parallel, the work of the carabinieri continues to dig deep into the professional activity of the doctor since he arrived at the emergency room in Saronno: he investigates all the cases treated by Cazzaniga in the hospital. The carabinieri seized dozens and dozens of medical records on which checks are underway. We want to establish whether and which cases were subjected to the "Cazzaniga protocol". There are currently seven hospital nurses who have admitted that they have heard of the "protocol". In the meantime, the Lombardy Region has decided to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the Emergency Department of the Saronno hospital. The Regional Welfare Councilor, Giulio Gallera, defined the act "dutiful". "We are absolutely disconcerted," he added, explaining that the Commission will be composed of clinical and hospital organization experts who will have the task of "verifying the correct management of the emergency room".