Thursday, February 22, 2007

Short Story, Almond Poisoning

MISERIES " Ó "Viveza" HUMAN?

Metro newspaper article

A father in the fridge (refrigerator) to collect the pension. The grandson found the body in the basement after seven years. MARCO

Sivieri rarely found the attitude of his father, Gaetano, when, last Sunday, asked him to come down to the basement for cleaning. Iban to sell the flat in Aosta (northern Italy) with a storage room and Marco wanted begin to empty. Gaetano

As he answered evasively, finally took the keys to a neglect of his father and went to take a look. After browsing a while, he opened the refrigerator cabinet.

Inside was the frozen body of his grandfather Olmo. He ran home to alert the police. When the carabinieri arrived, the father fell: he confessed it was he who had placed the body there for several years.

Sivieri Gaetano, 63, explained yesterday why his performance in an interview to the news on Canale 5.

backs to hide his face and his voice breaking, told him had done to keep the old substantial pension of 2,500 euros, the sole breadwinner, since he could not find work.

"I was desperate," said Sivieri, which told how the death just before the bank had introduced a bill out of funds of 250 billion lire (about 125,000 euros).

So when in 2000 he found Olmo, 86, ill with cancer and Alzheimer's, dead, decided to hide it and say to his wife and son who had gone into a house in Genoa. Neither

Marco nor his mother, Ariane, was never to see him. They were content with the news that gave them Gaetano, Olmo said they were well cared for, but getting worse.

Even if the autopsy (which can not be made until the body has been thawed) confirm his story, Gaetano will face the consequences of their actions: justice will be forced to return all money raised from the dead . RS



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