"Since my husband died we have had no peace and we want to know what happened, we want the truth. We were shocked to learn that he had no internal organs."
This was stated by Giusi Cundari, the widow of Alfio Torrisi, the 54-year-old from Giarre who died in October 2023 at the Rand memorial hospital in Freeport, in the Bahamas, where he had been hospitalized after an illness on the 'Paradise' ship of the Carnival cruise line, where he was at work on behalf of Techni teak of Riposto.
Video Alfio Torrisi, his wife Giusi speaks: 'I want the truth and my husband's organs'
The Catania Prosecutor's Office, following a complaint from the family, opened an investigation and ordered an autopsy which, however, could not be carried out because the body had been emptied of internal organs and filled with wood sawdust and newspapers.
"The most tragic fact - underlines the widow, who is assisted by the lawyers Antonio Fiumefreddo and Giuseppe Berretta - happened when we learned from the medical examiner that my husband's internal organs were missing. This heartbreaking fact leads us to have a thousand thoughts, a thousand doubts. We want to know the truth. I ask the State of the Bahamas for my husband's organs, the medical and autopsy reports, because to date we don't know the truth and we want to know it."
"The Italian consulate - adds Giusi Cundari - followed us from the first moments: first to find out where my husband was and what had happened, and then when we asked to do the autopsy there, otherwise the body could not be transferred to Italy At first I didn't agree, I didn't want them to carry out the medical-legal tests in the Bahamas, which I would have liked to have carried out in Italy, but I had to give in because the law required it and it was the only way to get my friend's body back. Husband".
Legal: 'There is no mystery'
"There is no 'mystery'" in the lack of presence of "internal organs" that emerged during the autopsy performed in Catania on Alfio Torrisi, 54 years old from Giarre, who died in October 2023 at the Rand memorial hospital in Freeport, in the Bahamas , where he had been hospitalized after an illness on the 'Paradise' ship of the Carnival cruise line, where he was working on behalf of Techni teak of Riposto.
This was stated by the lawyers Concetto Ferrarotto and Emanuela Fragalà who assist Nirelli Giulio and the Etna company, which is being investigated by the Catania Prosecutor's Office "a mere act required to guarantee the legitimacy of the medical-legal investigations ordered by the Prosecutor".
The two criminal lawyers underline that "it is essential to clarify that there is no "mystery" in relation to the lack of presence of the organs inside the body of poor Mr. Torrisi".
"When assigning the expert assignment - they explain - Professor Cristoforo Pomara clearly made it clear to all parties that this circumstance was already ordinarily foreseeable given the use, on the occasion of the autopsy carried out in the Bahamas, of the best-known autopsy technique as of "Letulle en masse", involving the removal en bloc, i.e. en masse, of all the organs".
As part of the investigation launched by the Catania Prosecutor's Office after the complaint presented by the lawyers Antonio Fiumefreddo and Giuseppe Berretta on behalf of Torrisi's family, an autopsy was ordered, but the medical examiner, as evidenced by a preventive CT scan, found the body without internal organs, replaced by sawdust mixed with sheets of American newspapers, to embalm it.
for this reason, with an international letter rogatory, the procedure was started to recover the "slides" that the hospital in the Bahamas should have preserved.
But the request is still awaiting a response.
The lawyers Ferrarotto and Fragalà underline that "Techni Teak is an established company in the sector which has been carrying out its activity for years guaranteeing the widest protection of its employees in carrying out their work duties" and announce that, "despite profound respect for the pain of relatives of the deceased", reserve "as of now any action to protect the personal and professional image of Nirelli and his company.
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