The Prosecutor’s Office of the Italian capital has opened an investigation for manslaughterafter the death of a c14 year old British citizen who visited Rome with his family. During dinner at an establishment in the Roman neighborhood of Gianicolense, near the well-known Trastevere, the young woman apparently ate some food with traces of peanut. According to the parents, their daughter suffered from a severe allergy to that product and in the past had already suffered strong reactions allergic.
Although the parents informed employees restaurant about her daughter’s pathology, some food contained peanuts, which caused her a anaphylactic shock just 15 minutes after leaving the establishment, when the family was heading to their hotel. Investigators do not rule out that the incident occurred due to a confusion with the language. The parents assure that they notified the employees, but confirm that they didn’t do it in italian and the owners of the premises, of Egyptian nationality, may not have understood his explanations.
The young woman died shortly after in the hospital.
The anaphylactic shock caused by ingesting traces of peanuts caused his death already in the San Camilo hospital in Rome, very close to the restaurant where everything happened. Was the first meal that the family of British origin carried out in the city and for the next few days they had already booked visits to the Vatican and the Colosseum.
Furthermore, according to Italian media, the father of the deceased had to be hospitalized in that same medical center for heart problems resulting from shock because of the situation he was experiencing.
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This incident occurred a week ago and the family is already back in England awaiting the repatriation of the body of his daughter, which will not be carried out until the autopsy is performed. At this time, apart from the beginning of the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, the Police of the Italian capital are investigating whether the owners of the establishment were aware of the young woman’s allergy and if the establishment complied with all measures that the law requires to avoid this type of incident. For now, The Rome Prosecutor’s Office charges them with the crime of involuntary manslaughter.
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