Sigrid Gröber died from a series of contributing causes: the injuries found on her body, previous pathologies, acute alcoholic intoxication and the hypothermic conditions in which she was found. But once the hypothermia had been removed, if the intervention of the rescuers had been immediate, she “would almost certainly have been saved”. This is the conclusion reached by Dario Raniero, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the body of the 39-year-old woman who died at dawn on 19 February 2023 in the Merano hospital, after having been beaten to death and abandoned in the freezing cold. on the staircase leading to the service quarters of her partner, Alexander Gruber, on trial in the Assize Court for manslaughter.
At today’s hearing, in the Court of Assizes in Bolzano, the court expert recognized that the rib fractures on the woman’s body “may also be due to the rescue operations”. An assist for the defense, entrusted to the lawyers Alessandra D’Ignazio and Claudia Benedetti: if the prosecutor Axel Bisignano decides to modify the charge in the part in which he attributes the fractures “to the use of blunt instruments, such as punches and kicks”, the terms for requesting access to the abbreviated procedure and the related sentence reduction would be reopened. Also today, in the courtroom, the defense consultant, Piergiorgio Tubaro, argued that the bruises and abrasions were due to the woman’s accidental fall down the stairs. The next hearing is scheduled for April 24.
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