{"id":393167,"date":"2026-04-23T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:48:08","slug":"italian-parents-face-manslaughter-charges-after-statuette-thrown-by-son-kills-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393167\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian parents face manslaughter charges after statuette thrown by son kills tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naples prosecutors have requested a trial for the couple on joint manslaughter charges, Metro reported, arguing Jaconis\u2019 death on September 15, 2024, could have been prevented.<\/p>\n

However, the couple, professionals aged 65 and 54, deny any wrongdoing and have claimed the statuette did not belong to them, reported Metro.<\/p>\n

\"ChiaraChiara Jaconis was celebrating her birthday when she died. Photo \/ Chiara Jaconis<\/p>\n

Through their lawyers, the couple said they had no involvement in Jaconis\u2019 death. <\/p>\n

They also argued their son should be formally acquitted on the facts of the case rather than solely based on his age, reported Metro.<\/p>\n

Jaconis was born in Italy but had moved to Paris for work as a store manager for Prada, according to her LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

Last year, a memorial was organised to mark her death with her family and officials attending, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

Her mother asked those there to \u201clive life in colour, because that\u2019s what she always did\u201d. <\/p>\n

A preliminary hearing at the Naples Court is scheduled for June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naples prosecutors have requested a trial for the couple on joint manslaughter charges, Metro reported, arguing Jaconis\u2019 death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1117,74,29944,3595,1873,1872,9881,12513,42,2198,11156,89404,15035,43,3766,22639,179720,158690,10706,165,8229,25447,40,38,41,39,17489,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-393167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accused","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-alleging","11":"tag-by","12":"tag-charges","13":"tag-face","14":"tag-facing","15":"tag-failed","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-italian","18":"tag-killing","19":"tag-kills","20":"tag-manslaughter","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-parents","23":"tag-son","24":"tag-statuette","25":"tag-supervise","26":"tag-teenage","27":"tag-their","28":"tag-they","29":"tag-thrown","30":"tag-top-news","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-topnews","33":"tag-topstories","34":"tag-tourist","35":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}