Mystery in Taormina where a body was discovered around 1pm in via Mario e Nicolò Garipoli, inside the area where an icon of the Madonna is kept. The victim, a Taormina man in his forties, was identified later because he had no documents with him at the time of the discovery. The body was found by a person who had gone to the votive shrine and raised the alarm.
On site were the Carabinieri of the Taormina Company and the coroner, Professor Elvira Ventura Spagnolo. The causes of death have yet to be established: among the hypotheses is that the man may have fallen from the cliff above after losing his balance, but it could also have been a voluntary act.
The soldiers, under the command of Captain Domenico Tota, set off from Viewing camera footage located in the area of the Lumbi parking lot and Piano Porto to understand if the man arrived there alone or with other people and in the early afternoon they identified the car with which he would have arrived in Taormina, a BMW 3 Series parked on Via Garipoli near the artificial Lumbi tunnel, rented from a sports club in Catania, inspected by the military in search of useful clues.
The intervention of the Letojanni Fire Brigade was requested on site to search among the vegetation and on the slope for the victim’s cell phone and any other personal objects, but the search was unsuccessful.
The body of the forty-year-old, after being examined by the medical examiner Elvira Ventura Spagnolo, was transferred to the mortuary of the Policlinico of Messina, at the disposal of the judicial authorities. The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Messina has opened a file on the matter entrusted to the deputy prosecutor Stefania La Rosa, who could order an autopsy to establish the exact cause of death and provide answers to the questions that arose yesterday.