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Posted on: Monday, August 3, 2009

Boxing: Quebec coroner seeking Gatti documents


Associated Press

TORONTO — The coroner’s office in Quebec says it wants Brazilian authorities to share their files from boxer Arturo Gatti’s initial autopsy and the police investigation into his death.

Gatti’s death in Brazil on July 11 was ruled a suicide last week, after Brazilian police initially said the Canadian boxer and two-time world champion had been slain and that his wife, Amanda Rodrigues, was the prime suspect.
Gatti’s friends and relatives rejected that conclusion, and Quebec authorities completed a second autopsy on Gatti’s corpse Saturday.
Quebec coroner’s spokeswoman Genevieve Guilbault said Monday that her office had asked Canada’s federal government to get involved and request documents from the first autopsy and other files related to the scene when Gatti was found.