The last prince of Italy, son of King Umberto II, Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy died in Geneva at the age of 86, ANSA reported. On February 12 he would have turned 87 years old.
As stated on the website of the Royal House of Savoy, the Prince of Naples died peacefully surrounded by his family. They promised to announce the place and date of the funeral later.
In 1943, at the age of six, Vittorio Emanuele left Rome with his mother Maria Jose and lived in exile until 2003. Then the government Silvio Berlusconi overturned the decision taken after the recognition of Italy as a republic in 1946, according to which direct descendants of the Savoy dynasty were prohibited from being in Italy.
After the death of King Umberto II, Vittorio Emanuele was considered the head of the Italian royal dynasty.
In 2006, the prince was taken into custody on charges of corruption and pimping. During the investigation, the police installed wiretapping in his cell and learned from a conversation between Emanuele and his cellmate that he managed to escape punishment for murder. He admitted that in August 1978, while on his yacht, he shot a 19-year-old German with a rifle Dirk Hammersleeping on the deck of a neighboring ship. Five months later, while in a coma, the man died from his wounds in hospital.
At his trial in 1991, the prince said he fired into the air because he discovered his rubber dinghy was missing and decided to wake up the passengers on a nearby yacht. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge and proposed that Emanuele be sentenced to five and a half years for illegally carrying a weapon.
2024-02-03 23:45:00
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