Overview
- Ministry inspectors requested disciplinary proceedings against the principal, deputy principal and branch head for "omissive conduct," with USR Lazio saying the procedure is underway.
- The report says an anti-bullying protocol should have been activated given "quasi aggressive" conduct in the class even though legal repetitiveness needed to define bullying was not established.
- Inspectors describe a "defensive mechanism" during their visit and deem class-council verbals more credible than the accounts provided by teachers.
- Two criminal probes continue, with Cassino prosecutors currently without named suspects and four pupils under investigation by the minors' office for instigation to suicide, as chat data from about ten devices is analyzed with prosecutors aiming for initial results in January.
- Paolo Mendico’s parents say the findings confirm their long-standing reports that the school failed to protect their son.