Adnkronos Milan, 9 Feb. (Adnkronos) – After a false start (the hearing on 29 January was cancelled because the defendant had the flu), tomorrow – Monday 10 February – Alessia Pifferi returns to the courtroom in Milan for the appeal trial for the death of her daughter Diana, abandoned for six days and left to die of starvation at just 18 months in the summer of 2022. The woman, sentenced in the first instance to life imprisonment for voluntary homicide aggravated by futile motives, is expected in the courtroom on the ground floor of the Palace of Justice where cameras have been banned.
Tomorrow's hearing will not, in any case, be the last. The court will only decide whether to grant a second psychiatric assessment, as requested by the defense, or to postpone the hearing to another date for the parties to discuss the case and to issue a ruling. If the first hypothesis were to occur, it would be a victory for the line strongly supported by the lawyer Alessia Pontenani, who has always been convinced that the defendant is a danger to herself and that she is not capable of understanding and willing, contrary to what was ruled by the psychiatric assessment.
It is the afternoon of July 14, 2022 when Alessia Pifferi leaves her daughter at home, in via Parea (Ponte Lambro area), with two bottles of milk and two bottles of water, to spend a weekend with her partner. She lies to everyone about where the child is. When she returns, she finds the little girl lifeless in her crib: she died in "a state of severe dehydration", the autopsy reveals. In the reasons for the first-instance sentence, there is no room for mitigating circumstances: the thirty-eight-year-old - detained in the Vigevano prison (Pavia) - is a woman driven by the "futile and selfish motive of seeking and living in her own spaces of autonomy" compared to "the priority right-duty to care for her daughter".