theguardian.com: David Sassoli, European parliament president, dies aged 65
2022/jan/11
The former journalist, whose three-year term as speaker of the chamber was due to end next week, had been admitted to hospital in Aviano, in his native Italy, on Boxing Day following a “dysfunction of his immune system”. He died at 1.15am on Tuesday...

Sassoli had been in hospital since 26 December with “a serious complication due to a dysfunction of the immune system”. The former television newsreader had struggled with ill-health since being taken to hospital in Strasbourg in September where he had been treated for a severe case of pneumonia caused by legionella...

Born in Florence, Sassoli had started his journalistic career on local newspapers before joining the staff of Il Giorno, for whom he reported from Rome. He moved to the Italian national television broadcaster RAI in 1992, where he would become a nationally known anchor presenting the main evening news.
EU parliament president David Sassoli's Christmas message, the last before his death

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italy24news.com: David Sassoli did not die from vaccine side effects
3 days ago
Sassoli’s clinical situation has become a topic of discussion among conspiracy theorists, the same ones who in September had doubted that he was suffering from legionella pneumonia...

It was Sassoli himself who explained that his illness was linked to the legionella bacterium: “I was seriously affected by a nasty Legionella pneumonia. I had a very high fever, I was hospitalized in Strasbourg. Then I returned to Italy for convalescence, but unfortunately I suffered a relapse and this prompted the doctors to recommend a series of analyzes and investigations “,