Claudio Mandia, the 17-year-old from Salerno found dead in an American college, was “subjected to unimaginable treatments by the administration” of the institute he was attending in New York: the young man’s family states in a statement, which says ” shocked and destroyed by this senseless death ». The family also reports that “a full investigation is underway” and that they intend to take “appropriate action”.
The young man, who died between Thursday and Friday night, would have turned 18 on Saturday. The family, who had reached the States just to celebrate Claudio’s birthday, explained that the young man was struck down by an illness. «Claudio was not sick, he was very healthy. The doctors will have to find out what happened, “said his uncle Pietro Benesatto. The US investigators, in fact, have not dissolved the reservations and wait before knowing the outcome of the autopsy to ascertain the reasons for the death. Benesatto also ruled out that his nephew was attacked or injured. So the death would be attributable to natural causes. The police listened to peers staying in the college attended by the young man to reconstruct the episode and the last hours of the student’s life spent at a party. In the institute that Claudio had chosen to train and learn the language, in the past few hours, a meeting was organized to remember the 17-year-old. The young man dreamed of becoming a manager and working in the field of economics and that is why he had decided to ‘fly’ to the United States.