Overview
- Heavy rains clogged a terrace drain—reportedly by a cup—sending black, foul-smelling water into lower apartments and prompting a neighbor to alert emergency services.
- Firefighters entered via a balcony and found a home overrun by pigeons and filth, where they located a fully skeletal body inside a bedroom.
- Documents found in the flat point to the occupant known as Antonio F., but confirmation awaits DNA or dental comparison and an anthropological autopsy to estimate the time of death.
- Police say a homicidal cause is unlikely and are treating the case as natural or accidental pending forensic results, with the local district unit handling the investigation.
- Community fees and utilities continued to be paid by direct debit and pension deposits reportedly persisted for years after the death, while one of the man's children has given a statement and neighbors seek sanitation measures for the flat.