ITALY: One day later, mystery still surrounds Thursday's air crash in central Milan in which a small private aircraft crashed into the city's tallest skyscraper, killing three people and injuring 29.
While police yesterday named the three dead as the plane's pilot, a Swiss citizen, Mr Luigi Fasulo (67), and two lawyers, Ms Annalise Rapetti (41) and Ms Alessandra Santonocito (42), investigators were forced to admit that the only thing that could be confirmed with any certainty was that the crash was not a terrorist action.
Mr Fasulo's Piper Commander 112 crashed into the central Milan, 30-storey, 400-ft high Pirelli building shortly after 5.45 p.m. on Thursday, killing both himself and the two lawyers who were working in the building.
Milan's senior public prosecutor, Mr Gerardo D'Ambrosio, admitted yesterday that the crash might have been provoked by a suicide gesture, a sudden illness or a serious technical problem.
Mr Fasulo's son, Marco, was reported in yesterday's Rome daily, La Repubblica, as saying: "This was no accident, this was a suicide. People were trying to do him in, ruin him financially and so he killed himself." Other family relatives and friends, however, yesterday denied that Mr Fasulo wished to kill himself.
