Overview
- Matteo Brandimarti, declared brain dead Thursday after days on life support, will have his organs donated with his parents’ consent.
- The 12-year-old became trapped on Easter Sunday morning when his leg was pulled into a hot tub nozzle while the hydromassage setting was running.
- He was held underwater for nearly five minutes before hotel staff cut the mains power to stop the pump and free him.
- Rescuers performed CPR, restarted his heart, and flew him by air ambulance to hospital, where investigators said hypoxia caused severe brain damage.
- Prosecutors opened an involuntary manslaughter investigation with no suspects as Spresal filed a report and the spa stayed closed for checks on nozzles, vents, and protective grilles, with an autopsy possible.