• The case of Caronia. The lawyer: Viviana did not kill herself and did not kill Joel
  • Caronia drama. Prosecutor: maybe died together. Research controversy

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August 23, 2020The autopsy on the body of Gioele Mondello, 4, whose remains were found in the countryside of Caronia, is scheduled for Tuesday morning at the Policlinico di Messina. Also on Tuesday, a team of experts from the Prosecutor's Office of Patti and the lawyers of the Parisi family and Daniele Mondello will make a new inspection on the hill of Caronia, following the “probable” path made by Viviana and Gioele.

The technicians will have to verify if the body of the found child away from the place where the mother was found dead, may have been dragged there by wild animals or dogs.

The assumptions of the Prosecutor's Office
There are two main hypotheses on which the Prosecutor is working: murder-suicide and aggression by animals. The first is based on the fragile psychic conditions of the woman. The doctors had diagnosed her with psychosis with mystical crises and delusions of persecution. After the accident in the tunnel, Viviana inexplicably abandoned the car and ventured into the countryside. The other hypothesis is that of aggression by wild animals, and the family members also agree, convinced that the woman would never have hurt her child.

The hypotheses of the lawyers of the two families
Pietro Venuti, lawyer of the Mondello family, explained that the mother and the child could have died in two moments and in two distinct places. "Maybe - explains Venuti - the mother had lost Giole for a moment and climbed on the pylon to try to spot him, ending up accidentally. It is likely that the child fell somewhere else and was subsequently attacked by animals. we have seen - concludes the lawyer - it would have been difficult even for the animals to drag the child's body to the place where the remains were found. ”

Waiting for an autopsy on Joel's body
An autopsy on the remains of little Joel is scheduled for Tuesday Mondello, 4 years old, found in the woods of Caronia, in the Messina area. The autopsy examination, at the Policlinico di Messina, will be performed by the medical examiner Elvira Ventura Spagnolo, the same one who examined her mother's corpse.

On Tuesday, new inspections .
The new inspection. , with the experts appointed by the Public Prosecutor of Patti and with the biased expert, Giuseppina Certo, will be used to carry out a survey to "identify the nature of the possible attack by animals and the bile itinerary made by Viviana and Gioele and to reconstruct the connection between the place where the mother was found first and then the child ", as underlined by the lawyer of the Parisi-Mondello family, the lawyer Pietro Venuti. The inspection was postponed to Tuesday morning to allow some of the prosecutor's experts, who come from outside the city and who are also involved in the autopsy on Joel's body, to perform both checks on the same day.

The president of the Nebrodi park
Meanwhile, Domenico Bardetta, president of the Nebrodi park, who does not make any assumptions about what happened, explains that the wild black pigs are numerous in that area: "We have already posed the problem to the prefecture of Messina during a technical table, also given the complaints of breeders concerned about their farms, and we were told that there would be other meetings to decide on a selective elimination of animals. We were later told - continues the president - that the mayors of the municipalities of the Nebrodi should have made individual ordinances to authorize the operation, but there have been no other meetings also due to the Covid-19 emergency and other problems. We do not know what really happened, however wild pigs can become dangerous especially if in a pack and with the puppies in tow, because they see man as a threat ".

The pastures of robbery
In the past in the Nebrodi area the so-called "pastures of robbery" was customary: pigs were illegally placed in state-owned areas, where they found acorns in the woods, and when they grew they were captured, attracted by dried broad beans or other grains clustered somewhere to get the animals' attention. Some nuclei of these pigs went wild but, the experts explain, there were no phenomena of hybridization with wild boars, as the ecological niche is occupied by the black pig.