Gal Costa: Police conclude investigation into singer’s death

Gal Costa: Police conclude investigation into singer’s death


The court ordered that the case be forwarded to the Police Investigation and Trial Center (CIPP) to investigate a possible crime by the widow Wilma Petrillo. Gabriel Costa, the artist’s son, has not yet commented

A Civil Police of San Paolo has concluded the investigation into the singer’s death Gal Coast. The case was conducted by the 15th Police District, located in Itaim Bibi, and the report was submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office this Monday, the 1st, without charges. Gal died in November 2022, at the age of 77.

The Court had ordered that the process to determine the cause of the artist’s death be forwarded to the Central Investigations and Police Trials (CIPP). The aim was to investigate a possible crime by Gal’s widow, Wilma Petrillo.

OR State contacted the Gabriel Coastthe singer’s son, for a statement on the investigation, but has not yet received a response. The space remains open.

According to the death certificate, Gal died of acute myocardial infarction and malignant tumor (cancer) of the head and neck. Gal’s body has not been autopsied at this time.

Gabriel Costa filed a request to exhume the singer’s body in March. The request was rejected by the courts in April. According to one of the young man’s lawyers, Luci Vieira Nunes, the goal was to bury the artist in Rio de Janeiro in a perpetual tomb purchased by the singer in the 1990s. The lawyer denied at the time that the goal was to investigate the singer’s death.

During the participation in the Fantastichowever, expressed discomfort that an autopsy had not been performed on Gal’s body. “I had no way of knowing if it was something deeper, something more than cardiac arrest. [Isso me levou a pedir a exumação]because I wanted to make sure that was really the case,” he said.

In contact with the State In April, Wilma’s lawyer, Vanessa Bispo, said the businesswoman had not been named in the exhumation action. “The facts that Gabriel accuses Wilma of are serious and he will have to prove it,” she said. Read the exclusive interview given by Wilma Petrillo to Estadão about the case here.

Source: Terra

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