Domenico Caliendo small case: lawyer asks for requalification in voluntary homicide

"If within 72 hours he had been connected to the Berlin Heart, the extracorporeal artificial heart, Domenico would have been retransplantable and would have had a success rate of over 70%, the investigating judge's experts write this in their 553-page report, which is why I ask that the Prosecutor's Office evaluate the possibility of contesting voluntary manslaughter instead of manslaughter".

This was declared by the lawyer Francesco Petruzzi, lawyer for the family of little Domenico Caliendo, the child who died due to a failed heart transplant performed in the Monaldi hospital in Naples on 23 December 2025.