The death of David Rossi, the res: 'The video shows shadows stopping at the beginning of the alley'

There are 12 sequences of 'shadows' compatible with the presence of one or more people in the blind area at the entrance to Vicolo Monte Pio, in Siena, in a period of approximately ten minutes - between 8.04 pm and 8.14 pm - on 6 March 2013, when the former communications head of MPS David Rossi died by falling from the window of his office in the bank's headquarters. This is what emerges from the conclusions of the Carabinieri RIS report dedicated to the analysis of the video surveillance footage and the simulation carried out on site on 22 June 2026.

According to what is reported in the 74-page report, illustrated this morning to the parliamentary commission of inquiry into Rossi's death, the examination of the video made it possible to identify '12 macro-events' characterized by attenuations of brightness on the white marble wall at the end of the alley, where cars passed in via dei Rossi. Phenomena which, according to the analysis, cannot be traced back to visual artefacts, digital defects or compression disorders. But they would be compatible with the interposition of opaque anthropomorphic bodies, i.e. probably people, between the headlights of vehicles and the wall.

The experimental verification, conducted through three-dimensional surveys with a laser scanner and the reproduction of the shooting conditions, identified five possible positions, indicated as stations A, B, C, D and E, compatible with the projection of the shadows observed in the 2013 film. A relevant element concerns the possible view of the body of David Rossi, who fell from the window of the Rocca Salimbeni office and remained on the ground in the alley.

According to the reconstruction of the Ris of Rome contained in the presentation, from positions A and B a direct view of the body would have been possible, with some limitations, while from the station only the lower extremities would have been visible. From positions C and D, however, the view would have been interrupted by the edge of the wall.

The investigation, given to the RIS on 22 May 2026 by the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the death of David Rossi, had as its question the verification of the possible presence of subjects at the end of Vicolo Monte Pio on the evening of 6 March 2013. The report, illustrated by Luca Gasparollo, commander of the operational intervention section of the RIS of the Carabinieri of Rome, by Federico Zomparelli, commander of the sound and audiovideo section of the Ris of the Carabinieri of Rome, and by Adolfo Gregori, consultant of the commission, identifies elements compatible with the presence of one or more people in the area not directly captured by the camera.