An Army Lieutenant Colonel commits suicide: the list of tragedies grows

According to the Dire agency, there were some difficulties related to employment and the stress of commuting from Rome to Bari

ROME – After the news of the young student of the marshals’ school in Florence who took her own life in the barracks bathroom at the age of 25, within a few hours the condolences of the single military union (Sum) arrive for “the suicide of a lieutenant colonel of the Army, G.D.. This morning (15 May), in Putignano – we read on the social page of the Union – the 53 year old officer made an extreme gesture, taking off his life This tragic event adds to the long list of police and armed forces personnel who have taken their own lives this year. The officer was serving in Rome at the 6 pioneer engineering regiment, after having been employed, in recent years, in other institutions in the capital where his strong professionalism had to be valorised (he was a graduate in civil transport engineering and qualified for the profession)”. “Apart from the problems that may arise at a private level – reports the Sum – we think that the time has come to invest resources to investigate the malaise within the Armed Forces, where some factors added to personal difficulties can sometimes culminate in tragedies of This guy. We join in the condolences of his family.”

A TRANSFER COULD HAVE TAKEN HIS SERENITY

According to what the Dire agency has learned, there were some difficulties related to employment and the stress of commuting from Rome to Bari would have affected his private life: the lieutenant colonel had found serenity in the infrastructure department of Bari, then the transfer. A great engineer had found himself – according to testimonies – thrown into a bedroom of the Engineers regiment and they would have denied him the 104. The SUM has long been calling for tools “to stop the phenomenon” and to prevent it. In the last congress in Rome, the vice president of the SUM, Carlotta Lorefice, had raised the alarm about individual stress and the organizational climate. The lieutenant colonel’s funeral will be celebrated tomorrow.