Fiorentina, Bruno Beatrice’s children: “Dad killed by a wrong cure”

Bruno Beatrice was almost forty years old, a wife, two young children and a past as a Serie A footballer between Ternana, Fiorentina and Cesena. They called him Mastino because he marked to man as it was done once, without respite, on the opponent. Bruno Beatrice was 39 years old when a bad leukemia took him away, a few days before Christmas 1987. It perhaps suspected that the disease had been caused by a wretched cure based on Roentgen or X -rays, which had prescribed and imposed on him by Fiorentina player to contrast a chronic pubalgia. Beatrice has not had justice, not yet. The criminal investigation was stored by prescription. The civil trial has run over. However, something could get back in motion. New elements, how to say it is used. We talked to Claudia and Alessandro, the children of Beatrice. Their mother, Gabriella Bernardini, Bruno’s wife, left a month ago, in March. It was she who discovered the connection between therapy and evil.

Claudia, you grew up without a father: how much did your lives be affected?

“We missed the dad and today we miss the grandfather, Alessandro and I are parents. Until some time ago, when there was mother, I was preparing for him too. An unbridgeable void. An endless sentimental discomfort. We have to be careful not to make this pain fall on our children. And there is anger for the silence, for the people who have not spoken or did not tell the truth. I have removed the memories. Dad in jeans, with me in the park, who kicks a ball, and a very blurred Christmas. Alessandro: “I am smaller and the memory I have is my sick father in the sterile room in Careggi (the hospital, editor’s note). We divide from an opaque glass, my little hand on her manona, but on the glass, not in contact “.

Alessandro, how is the situation on the procedural level?

“In the penalty, the prescription for the pre-intentional murder hypothesis, for which some doctors had been investigated and Carlo Mazzone, the Fiorentina coach in 1975-76, the season of the wrong care had been investigated. The doctors knew well what the risks were. When dad went to Rome to be visited by Professor Perugia, the answer was: ‘I immediately interrupt this treatment. If operating ‘. editor’s note) And dad quarreled, they came almost to the hands, in a retreat to Santa Margherita Ligure. My father felt betrayed when they communicated to him the sale to Cesena. In the civil trial, the causal link between X -ray therapy and leukemia was ascertained, but the judge closed the procedure because he said there were no more witnesses. Moreover, one of the doctors implicated died of leukemia himself because he was too exposed to that machine too. To accompany my father in the hospital and in the Florence clinic, Bruno Galdiolo had repeatedly (formerly Viola Stopper, who died in 2018, editor’s note) “.

Why could the civil case reopen?

“Because new elements have emerged, contained in a stick. We are supported by the Tuscany Region, by the Governor Giani. On May 12, at noon, we will protect in Rome in front of the Palazzo della Cassazione, in Piazza Cavour. We will exhibit the banner that the Fiesole curve usually spreads to the Franchi of Florence: ‘Justice for Bruno Beatrice’. The Quaestor Roberto Massucci authorized us. With the doctors.

Claudia, your mother Gabriella grew up alone, without missing anything.

“She was a strong and concrete woman, with the meaning of business. At my birth, dad gave her a brilliant, to which she said: ‘What do I do with a ring? Buling an apartment’. And dad bought it. When she was born Alessandro, the same. No watches or luxury machines. Our mother invested dad’s earnings in the immobiliare and in the land. And when our father died, she joined two large apartments in the center of Arezzo The hotel “I Portici”, and with the hotel we lived well for years. Alessandro we live and work in our agricultural estate near Arezzo “.

Alessandro, who was close to you of football?

“Moreno Roggi, dad’s ex -partner in Fiorentina, a great pushing full -back, then prosecutor, never left us alone”.

Your mom was the first to connect the threads, the therapy as the cause of the disease.

Alessandro: “In 1996 he found a book,” Human guinea pigs “, published by Feltrinelli in 1971, in which it was written that the Roentgen rays could cause leukemias and tumors. There he understood that the doctors could not fail to know and went to speak with the magistrates. She also fell ill (not for the rays, editor’s note): in 1999 he suffered a liver transplant and, almost unique case, he never had a rejection crisis. She died of a pneumonia in our opinion badly cared for, entered and left the hospital. We also turned to the lawyers for her and we will see if there will be the elements for legal action “.