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Cuneo Prosecutor Seeks Indictment of Six in 7-Year-Old’s Drowning at Caraglio Biopark

The filing centers on a chain of human errors that, prosecutors say, left basic safety protections absent.

Overview

  • The request names two parish-group animators, park manager Roberto Manzi, parish priest Don Fabrizio Della Bella, engineer Stefano Ferrari, and municipal official Graziano Viale.
  • All six are accused of involuntary manslaughter, while Ferrari and Viale also face allegations of falsifying public certificates tied to the project.
  • Investigators say the child was mistakenly given an orange swimmer wristband instead of a green non-swimmer tag, which let her approach the lake without flotation.
  • Prosecutors cite missing safeguards at the biopark, including no evacuation plan, insufficient lifeguards, unfenced banks, inadequate depth signage, and no floating divider between shallow and deep areas.
  • Manzi allegedly alerted the priest to inattentive supervision without follow-up action, and the preliminary hearing before the GUP has not yet been set.