Actor Davide Iacopini regains consciousness, still in intensive care with reserved prognosis

Improving condition

Actor Davide Iacopini has regained consciousness and is awake, interacting with doctors and family, Adnkronos reported on 28 October. He remains in the intensive care unit at the AO San Camillo-Forlanini hospital in Rome, and his prognosis is still described as reserved. AGI, which reports the same development, says a transfer from intensive care to an ordinary ward is being considered. Adnkronos links his gradual improvement to a reduction in sedation aimed at waking him.

The attack in Monteverde

Adnkronos and AGI both place the attack on the evening of 5 October in the Monteverde neighbourhood of Rome, while Iacopini was riding his scooter. The attackers were two young men in a minicar. AGI reports that one of them knocked him off the scooter with a kick, and that his condition appeared desperate immediately afterward. Fanpage gives 7 October as the date of the events and says he has been in hospital since then, which differs from the 5 October date given by the other two outlets.

Fanpage also reports that one of the two young men, whose identity it does not give, said he had removed a hand from the handlebar and that it was a joke. According to Fanpage, the pair had spread panic for days in the Monteverde and Testaccio neighbourhoods.

Hospital treatment

Adnkronos reports that Iacopini has undergone two neurosurgical operations since the attack. His sedation was reduced to help him wake, and the gradual improvement followed that reduction. He remains under constant medical care in intensive care, and his prognosis has not been lifted. The articles do not give a date for a transfer to another ward.