Florence, February 22, 2021 – Tragedy at night a Florence: to approximately 3, a 21enne students of Polimoda is died instantly after falling from the fourth floor of a building downtown. It is about Federico Schiraldi, originally from Monza, who was staying with other students.
Meanwhile, it has been placed under seizure the apartment on the fourth floor of the period building in via Porta Rossa from which Schiraldi fell when he fell into an internal courtyard. At the moment, inspections are being carried out in the houses by the forensic police, coordinated by the prosecutor Ledda. Last night there were seven young people in the apartment, all foreigners except the 21-year-old. Three of them lived in the house, while four were there for the night.
As rebuilt by carabinieri According to the first testimonies collected, during the night the young man had drank alcohol, and his friends had taken him to bed. Another boy slept in the room with him. Later, friends noticed his absence and noticed the open window, so they raised the alarm, first at 118 and then at the carabinieri. Furthermore, it is known that the window from which he fell would have a very high parapet. At the moment, the carabinieri are following all the leads. In the morning they arrived in Florence the 21-year-old’s mother and uncle, originally from the province of Monza and Brianza.
The young man would have been drunk or in another state of alteration due to alcohol. This is what the carabinieri who are investigating the death raise. The hypothesis is that the young people were playing a board game in which whoever makes a mistake has to drink alcohol, one ”.gara di shottini “. The friends would then accompany him to bed, in a room in the same apartment: the 21-year-old would have been drunk or otherwise in a state of alteration precisely because of the ‘shots’ of the spirits drunk during the game. One of the reconstructions hypothesized by the researchers is that the 21-year-old may have woken up due to illness, that he opened the window in search of refreshment but leaned too far, falling into space. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office has opened a file with the hypothesis of the crime of incitement to suicide but, it is noted, it is a necessary act to be able to carry out the investigations including the autopsy.
Polimoda’s condolences
“We are deeply saddened by the tragedy that involved our student. The board of directors, all the teachers and the whole school gather around his family in a condolences ”, declared the president of Polimoda. Ferruccio Ferragamo, immediately after hearing the news that, last night, the boy lost his life when he fell from the fourth floor of a house in the center of Florence. “A tragedy that has marked us deeply. Federico was one bright and determined student, appreciated by the teachers and all their classmates ”, said the director, Massimiliano Giornetti.