A 25-year-old student committed
suicide by jumping from the roof of the the Monte Sant'Angelo
university complex in Naples on Monday, because she had not
qualified for completing her degree as she had told her family,
who had travelled up for the event.
She was behind with her exams and was therefore not on
Monday's roll of students set to graduate, sources at the
southern city's Federico II university said.
The woman, Giada De Filippo from Sesto Campano near Isernia,
was a natural sciences student.
Her family had travelled up to Naples to see her fulfill her
academic ambitions.
She left the group, went up to the roof and threw herself
off.
She had told everyone she was due to discuss her thesis,
capping her university career, Sesto Campano Mayor Luigi Paolone
said.
"She was a sunny girl, always smiling, sweet and beautiful,"
the mayor said.
"The family is special too, her father, mother and brother.
"The news has stunned everyone because no one could have
expected a gesture like this from her".
As for the possibility she took her own life because she had
not completed the necessary number of exams to graduate, Paolone
said "I've heard that too, it's going around the town, it's in
the media, but I can't say whether it's true".
"At the moment no one knows what impelled the girl to do what
she did.
"I haven't spoken to her parents yet".
He said there would be a day of civic mourning when she is
buried.
The dean of Naples' Federico II university, Gaetano Manfredi,
came to the scene of the suicide.
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