Italian court reopens investigation into tourist killed by falling statue

Two years after Chiara Jaconis, a 30-year-old Prada manager from Padua, died from a head injury caused by a falling statue in Naples, an Italian court has ordered the case reopened. The Juvenile Court of Appeals instructed a ballistics examination to identify whether a 4.85-pound Akhenaten figurine or a 10-pound Nefertiti bust was responsible. Jaconis was hit while moving her luggage through the Spanish Quarters on the way to the airport, after a 13-year-old boy allegedly pushed the object from a third-floor balcony.

Because Italian law shields minors under 14 from criminal liability, the boy faces no charges. No conviction has been secured, and Jaconis’s mother, Cristina Venturi, says the family is still waiting for justice.