BOLOGNA – The Public Prosecutor of Bologna has opened a file on the death of Michele Merlo and ordered the autopsy following the complaint presented this morning by the family. The parents want to understand, because the death of their son is a drama that “still has many shadows, we want clarity”.
The young singer, a well-known face in Amici’s talent, died of fulminant leukemia in the night between Thursday and Friday at the Maggiore hospital in Bologna. The crime hypothesized by the magistrates is “manslaughter” and the file is open at the moment against unknown persons. In addition to the results of the autopsy examination, the investigators will acquire the medical records both at the Maggiore hospital in Bologna and the documentation produced in the emergency room of the Vergato hospital, in the Apennines, to which Michele had turned on Wednesday evening due to widespread malaise. (sore awake and throat). Structure that then sent him home, without making further tests and prescribing simple antibiotics.
Yesterday was the day of pain for the parents, Katia and Domenico. But a question remains, a doubt that corrodes: “Could it have been saved?”. Experts say yes, if diagnosed in time. This is the most delicate step. The family will go all the way: “We need to know if all this pain could have been avoided.” Michele, 28, was their only son.
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In a note released this morning the complaint to the judiciary is announced. “Michele Merlo’s parents considered it appropriate, also following the news on an ‘internal investigation’ requested by the Local Health Authority of Bologna about what happened in the days and hours prior to admission to the Reanimation ward of the Maggiore hospital – reads – to ask the judiciary to carry out the necessary investigations in order to verify if there were any errors and / or omissions prior to admission to the Major that irreversibly determined the fate of their child “.
The complaint was filed in the morning by the family’s consultants and lawyers. A formal act “necessary to request the start of the procedures for the seizure of the body and medical records”, is explained in the note. And the prosecutor has already moved by arranging the autopsy.
Domenico and Katia add their thanks to “all the medical and paramedical staff and the managers of the reanimation department of the Ospedale Maggiore for the professionalism and humanity shown in the terrible hours that preceded the death of their son”. The date of the funeral will be communicated only after the judicial authority gives the green light.
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The first visit to the Vergato hospital
Last Wednesday, the day before the emergency operation at the Maggiore hospital, Michele Merlo was discharged from another hospital in the province, in the Vergato emergency room, on the Bolognese Apennines. “He complained of symptoms that a careful doctor would have caught – said his father – He had a severe migraine for days, neck pain and plaques in his throat, a typical sign of leukemia. If they had examined him they would have seen that he had bruises. we have a medical report but a barcode bracelet that I have at home. “
Then there is the audio that Michele sends to his girlfriend in which he says, after being examined and discharged: “I’m pissed off, they told me that I’m filling the emergency room with two plaques in my throat.” Instead he was tired and continued to feel bad. His latest post on Instagram, Thursday, June 3, reads: “I would like a sunset, but my throat and head explode from the pain. Remedies?”.
“In Vergato they gave him antibiotics to take: when they sent him home he had a fever of 38.5-39. But not trusting him, the next day he called his family doctor in Bassano, who instead recommended him a another antibiotic. Without seeing it, however. The initial therapy was wrong regardless “, the story of Domenico Merlo. The next day, that is in the evening between Thursday and Friday, the young singer was operated on for a cerebral hemorrhage triggered by sudden fulminant leukemia.
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Ausl, internal investigation
The health care company, a note reads, “having also heard the family, is reconstructing the story starting from the young man’s first access to the Vergato hospital, which took place on the afternoon of Wednesday 2 June, and where he appears to have been visited by the doctor. Continuity of assistance. The punctual reconstruction of the emergency assistance which took place the next day is also underway, which led to the intervention and hospitalization in intensive care. The management therefore mandated the company Risk Manager to proceed to activate the procedure for a clinical risk audit “.
The girlfriend and that song she never listened to
Entrust his farewell to social media: “Now stop dreaming and fly among the stars and dive into the sea”. So Luna Shirin Rasia, the 21-year-old student girlfriend of Michele Merlo, he wanted to greet him. “Thank you, thank you for everything, forever in my heart. Destiny made us meet and as if by magic it made us live moments of pure love, of immense joy in small moments and gestures, the ones we loved so much. I thank you infinitely for making me believe in myself and in love. I do not know when and if I will be ready to dive back into this world, but I will succeed, I promise you my heart, because the strength you have given me no one else will ever be able to give it to me. I will live my life to the fullest for you and me, you will always be in all my moments and thoughts “.
In an interview with the Giornale di Vicenza, Luna, of Venezuelan origin, who studies Fashion Cultures and Practices at the University of Bologna, says that Merlo had written a song for. “I begged him to sing it to me, but he wasn’t well, so he said to me: ‘Love I’ll sing it to you soon, in front of a sunset. But don’t think it’s a sloppy song: it talks about when we won’t be together anymore, but not why we will not love each other anymore “. Perhaps the text is still in the young man’s phone: “But I’ll read it calmly, when I’m ready”.
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