The frequency of 73-year-old Francesco Villi’s strange accidents and a lack of medical proof raised suspicions he was a malingerer.
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His family doctor said in the 1990s that Villi had thoughts of suicide. A psychiatrist in 1994 diagnosed Villi with adjustment disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. A tribunal hearing his insurance claims disregarded Villi’s claims as unbelievable. At the time of the shootings, Villi was embroiled in a dispute over his apartment, which was located over top of the building’s electrical room. He complained of vibrations, noise and poor air circulation that robbed him of comfort and sleep over years.Article content
Villi, then 44 years old, was driving his van in a parking lot of a shopping mall roughly 20 kilometres from where he was living at the time of the massacre, when someone drove into the driver’s side of his van. “Mr. Villi testified that he was badly shaken up in the accidents, although he did not hit any part of his body on the inside of the van as a result of the collisions. He was wearing his seat belt at the time of the first accident, which was more severe than the second.Article content
Even before the crashes, though, Villi missed long periods of work due to workplace accidents and motor vehicle crashes. He was on a 15 per cent workers’ compensation pension for back disability at the time.
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