Overview
- A healthy 35-year-old man from Main-Tauber-Kreis fell ill after ordering a fish dish while on holiday at Lake Garda in April and died despite emergency treatment.
- Local rescuers were called to the family's holiday accommodation after the man and his father reported severe vomiting and nausea, but only the 35-year-old could not be saved.
- An autopsy was performed in Italy and the body has been returned to Germany for an additional post-mortem as investigators await toxicology and bacteriology results.
- The Mosbach public prosecutor has opened a negligent-homicide probe against unknown persons and filed a mutual legal assistance request to Italy while the Verona prosecutor continues its own inquiry.
- Investigators are focusing on toxins or bacterial food poisoning because the deceased had no known pre-existing conditions and symptoms affected him and his father but not other family members, and outcomes of lab tests will determine any charges and public-health follow-up.