Today new hearing in Milan for Alessia Pifferi. The hearing began an hour after the scheduled time, with the defendant arriving just before 10am. The woman – accused of murdering her 18-month-old daughterleft to die of starvation – he asked to be able to make spontaneous statements.
“I never wanted to kill my daughter, I didn’t kill my daughter”, the woman told the judges, after talking about her difficult childhood and the pathologies she discovered she had had since she was a child only after the help of the professionals who followed her after the murder.
“I am neither a murderer nor a monster, I am a mother who lost her daughter and I never thought something like this could happen to my little girl.” “I want to reiterate to all of Italy that I never premeditated something like this, I never wanted to hurt her, I am already paying for my life sentence having lost my little girl.”
The 38-year-old also spoke about her difficulties related to life in San Vittore prison “where I can’t do anything, I’m always locked in a cell and this is driving me crazy”. And also of the psychological violence suffered by the other inmates who in the morning “shout ‘Good morning, murderer’ to me”. However, “there is not a day or a minute in which I don’t think about Diana. The way she came into the world, suddenly, I accepted her and it was the best gift that life could give me.” Then the word passed to the prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi for his indictment.
Before the hearing lto his lawyer, Alessia Pontenanitold reporters that he would have asked to re-evaluate the psychiatric report on the basis of new papers which would demonstrate a cognitive deficit of your client. However, the request was rejected.
Precisely on the psychologists who assisted the woman and her own lawyer in prison pm launched an investigationjudging tests that would demonstrate mental incapacity to be unreliable. Here are Pontenani’s statements:
The public minister’s indictment: “Diana died amid fear and suffering”
According to the prosecutor, Alessia Pifferi told many “lies”, starting from having left the little girl with her sister, “to satisfy her needs” to be with her partner and in doing so she exposed the little girl “to a series of risks , of which only one materialized: Diana died of starvation.” It is one of the passages in the indictment of the Milan prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi ready to ask for the maximum sentence for the accused.
And so between 14 and 20 July 2022, regardless of “the very high temperatures”, she leaves little Diana in the cradle in her home in Milan and goes to Bergamo and for “fear of a reaction from her man” continues her lie . “She would have had a thousand ways to save her daughter’s life” underlines the prosecutor, but Diana dies alone and is found by the woman only six days later. Once in the house, “he lifts her and washes her, changes her clothes and places her inside the crib” then raises the alarm by calling a neighbor, but there’s nothing left to do. “The little girl did not have enough water and food. This is demonstrated by the absolute absence of food in the house, excluding those two-three edible leftovers present in the refrigerator which in any case the little girl would not have been able to take because she was not independent, if we exclude the baby bottle with a residue of water found on the table, if we exclude the residue of milk from a bottle on the bedside table, there was nothing that could allow a little girl to resist.”
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Alessia Pifferi during the hearing of the trial for the murder of her daughter Diana in the courtroom of the Palace of Justice in Milan, 12 April 2024
The little girl “ate a piece of diaper” due to hunger
The prosecutor spares no details and does so using the words of the witnesses who saw the victim’s lifeless body. “Only in this way will we be able to take note of the atrocious suffering of this little girl, of the fear she felt, gripped by the pangs of hunger and thirst that she felt, she ate a piece of diaper” reveals the prosecutor. A little girl who “only knows how to smile and doesn’t know how to walk, who needs a mother, a mother who wasn’t there: she was out having fun. Then the accused’s only desire was to fuel her love affair, today her the only purpose is to evade the consequences of his actions of which he is absolutely aware” adds the prosecutor, certain that Alessia Pifferi will ask the court for leniency to avoid the maximum sentence.
The prosecutor describes the horror and Diana Pifferi’s aunt cries
Viviana Pifferi, Alessia’s sister and Diana’s aunt, cried for a long time when the prosecutor described in detail in his indictment in the courtroom. Prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi himself became visibly moved at times during his indictment while reading some passages of the documents. “This is the terrible death of a human being – he explained – and in this case she is a little girl, who only knows how to smile and instead is found like this”.
