After Angelo Onorato was found dead in his car in Palermo on Saturday, May 25th, with a plastic tie around his neck and blood stains on his shirt, his wife Francesca Donato—an Italian MEP, most well-known for her opposition to the globalist agenda—said “they killed my husband Angelo” (emphasis added).
Angelo’s 20-year-old daughter Carolina, who was with her mother when the body was found, aired a similar sentiment on social media, insisting: “My father did not commit suicide, they killed him.”
He was not someone who would ever leave his family in this way. Let no one dare say or even think that my father committed suicide.
Following the news of her husband’s death, the mainstream journals have indulged in branding Donato—who opposed vaccine passports, supported Italy dropping the euro, and is critical of the ‘digital transition’—an “anti-vaxxer” and a spreader of “various conspiracy theories.” She is not standing for re-election.
Her husband was an architect and entrepreneur. The family says he was on the way to a development of his near Palermo’s Punta Raisi airport at the time of his death, where he had hoped—as one report put it—to “resolve a problem.” Angelo’s family has ruled out the possibility of him being under financial duress.
The circumstances of the death have prompted papers to talk up various “suspicions,” without pointing to any in particular. National newspaper Il Messaggero even described the case as a “full-fledged mystery.”
But Donato, lamenting “the most difficult and devastating moments of my life,” has asked “everyone to refrain from speculating about the causes of my husband’s death”:
There are investigations underway, let’s let the police work.
Initial forensic examinations revealed no signs of violence on Onorato’s body. It is understood that a full autopsy was conducted on Monday, May 27th.
A lawyer representing Onorato’s family said he is “convinced that the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office will come to the same conclusions” regarding the death being a homicide.
