Police analysing PC, phones in suicide-instigation probe

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 18 - Police in Perugia are analysing 60 SIM cards, five phones and a personal computer as part of a suicide-instigation probe into the death of 19-year-old university student Andrea Prospero, investigative sources said on Tuesday.
    An 18-year-old Roman student has been placed under house arrest for allegedly inciting Prospero to take his life while another youth who lives in the southern Campania region is under investigation for allegedly selling the opioids used for the suicide.
    Prospero was found dead on January 29 in a rental apartment in the Umbrian city centre and is believed to have taken his life five days earlier.
    Investigators - coordinated by the State Attorney's Office in Perugia - are looking into the online contacts of the teen from Lanciano, in Abruzzo, who studied computer science at the University of Perugia.
    Police found chat messages on Prospero's cell phone which he allegedly exchanged with the teen under arrest, whom he had contacted on the dark-web.
    The 18-year-old allegedly advised Prospero on how to use medication to commit suicide, according to investigative sources.
    "Andrea Prospero's death serve as a warning for those surfing the internet so certain tragedies will never happen again", Carlo Pacelli, a lawyer who represents the student's family, told ANSA. (ANSA).