The pharmacist who allegedly sold, without a prescription, painkillers to the two Belgian brothers found dead yesterday in a four-star hotel room in Florence is under investigation for manslaughter. There are currently no other suspects in the investigation. Next Wednesday, Prosecutor Giacomo Pestelli will appoint the medical examiner to perform an autopsy.
According to what has been learned, the pharmacist, a young man who apparently just finished his studies, last Saturday allegedly sold without a prescription, to one of the two brothers, two packages of an opioid analgesic based on oxycodone, whose power - it is explained in investigative circles - is comparable to that of morphine. It was the Belgian who insisted on having that type of drug, explaining that he needed it to control the pain following an operation on his arm. The two packages of the drug, containing 28 pills each, were found yesterday in the room, next to alcoholic beverages. One was apparently completely empty while 14 pills were missing from the other. The hypothesis is that between Saturday and Sunday the two young men consumed 42 doses of this drug, in addition to drinking alcohol. Toxicological tests, however, will establish whether, as investigators currently hypothesize, the two brothers died due to the mix of alcohol and drugs. Investigations are also underway into the possibility, considered less probable at the moment, that the two, one of whom in the past had problems related to drug use, may have also taken drugs in the hours preceding their deaths.
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