Bologna prosecutors said Tuesday that
they have opened a probe into possible culpable homicide in
relation to the death of Michele Merlo, a singer who died at the
age of 28 on Monday after a brain haemorrhage triggered by a
sudden attack of leukemia.
Merlo was admitted to one Bologna hospital on Thursday days
after he had been sent home by the ER at another hospital in the
city, which had diagnosed his symptoms as being caused by a
relatively innocuous virus..
Earlier on Tuesday Merlo's parents put out a statement
requesting prosecutors open a criminal probe.
In the statement, Merlo's family asked magistrates to "conduct
the necessary investigations to establish if there were mistakes
and-or omissions" in the handing of his case.
They said they would make a formal request for his body and the
clinical case files to be impounded.
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