Child who died in Naples, the servant: “I felt dizzy and I dropped it”

Mariano Cannio, the 38-year-old servant arrested for the murder of little Samuele, the 4-year-old boy who died in Naples on 17 September after falling from the balcony of his home in Via Foria, claimed to have “had a dizziness”. The investigating judge Valentina Gallo validated the arrest issued against the man who this morning, defended by the lawyer Mariassunta Zotti, was heard by the investigating judge during a hearing that lasted about an hour and a half, in the presence of the prosecutors Aprea and Marra. Cannio answered the investigators’ questions by explaining that he went out to the balcony of the house, where he went to do the cleaning: “I went out to the balcony, always having the baby in my arms, and as soon as I came out near the railing I had a dizziness. I looked out from the balcony while I had the baby in my arms because I heard voices coming from below, at this point I dropped the baby below. I did it because at that moment I had a dizziness “. It is Cannio himself who explains that he is being treated at a mental health center as he is suffering from schizophrenia. Asked by the defender, Cannio replied that he had not told the child’s family that he was being treated at the mental health center, nor that he suffered from schizophrenia. In the statements contained in the order validating the arrest, issued during an interrogation that took place on the same day of the tragedy, September 17, Cannio explained that he had picked up the baby and “went out to the balcony. the child in my arms I leaned over and dropped the little one. ” After the fall of the child “I fled the house and went to eat a pizza in the Sanità, which I don’t remember, then I returned to my home. I lay down on the bed and started thinking about what had happened. I got off and went to a bar in via Duomo and got a cappuccino and a croissant, then I went home “.