From the biological samples on the woman’s husband, 53-year-old Angelo Meninno, who was also intoxicated and discharged on Monday from the “Cotugno” hospital in Naples, no traces of botulinum toxin emerged. Thus the investigations continue to reconstruct the last hours before the death of Gerardina Corsano who died at the age of 46 from suspected food poisoning after having dinner with her husband in a restaurant in Ariano Irpino in Avellino. Meanwhile, the Benevento prosecutor’s office has notified the provision with which the release of the premises was ordered.

The restaurant business – says Guerino Gazzella, lawyer for the restaurant owners – can therefore resume regularly. We confidently await the outcome of all the investigations, including the analyzes of the Higher Institute of Health.” “We strongly reiterate – continues the lawyer – that any responsibility for what happened will have to be sought elsewhere. We are sure of the quality of the products that we have been using and supplying to our customers for 30 years.”

The woman’s funeral will be held on Thursday at 10.00am – After the autopsy carried out last Saturday and the first results communicated by the laboratories of the Higher Institute of Health on the food samples seized from the pizzeria where the victim, together with her husband, ate dinner on 28 October, the prosecutor of the Benevento Prosecutor’s Office, Maria Amalia Capitanio, gave the authorization. Gerardina’s husband, through his lawyers, asked the press, “in respect of the work of the media, to keep the cameras away” from the Addolorata church in Contrada Difesa Grande where the rite will be celebrated.