New shadows over the death of David Rossi, former head of communications at MPS

New elements have emerged from the Carabinieri RIS report on the death of David Rossi, the former head of communications for Monte dei Paschi di Siena, who fell from his office window on March 6, 2013. The analysis of surveillance footage and a simulation conducted on June 22, 2026, identified 12 macro-sequences, between 20:04 and 20:14 that evening, in which reductions in brightness are observed on the white marble wall at the end of Vicolo Monte Pio.

According to the RIS experts, these phenomena would not be attributable to technical defects but would be compatible with the interposition of opaque bodies of anthropomorphic shape, plausibly one or more persons. The report, presented this morning to the second Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, identifies five possible positions from which those shadows could have been projected. From positions A and B, a direct view of Rossi's body on the ground would have been possible.

The story originates on the evening of March 6, 2013, when David Rossi, then head of communications for the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Mps) bank, died after falling from the window of his office located in the historic Rocca Salimbeni headquarters in Siena. Initially classified as a suicide, the death has been the subject of numerous doubts and led to the establishment of a parliamentary inquiry commission.

The case has returned to the spotlight because questions persist about what happened that evening. On May 22, 2026, the commission tasked the Carabinieri's Forensic Science Department (RIS) with verifying the possible presence of people in Monte Pio alley, an area not directly covered by surveillance cameras. The new technical analysis, based on laser scanner surveys and a reconstruction of the 2013 recording conditions, seeks to shed light on a dark point in the reconstruction, adding elements that could call the event's dynamics back into question.