Alessia’s sister: “The sentence was fair, it never had any mitigating circumstances”
“I think the judges did what was right, because for me she never had any extenuating circumstances, she was never crazy or had psychological problems.” Thus Viviana Pifferi, Alessia’s sister, commenting on the sentence with which her relative was sentenced to life imprisonment. «Right now I can’t even say what I feel, it’s a very strange thing. I hope that now Diana can fly away in peace,” she added.
The prosecutor: «It is a fair sentence, the first stage in ascertaining the truth»
«It is a fair sentence, the first stage in ascertaining the truth. I have always believed in it and with this verdict they have brought the victim back to the center of the trial.” Thus the public prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi, after reading the sentence with which Alessia Pifferi was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her daughter Diana, left to die of starvation at just 18 months old. “I saw a woman who played a part, I expected a life sentence,” he added.
Mother Maria: “It’s an excruciating pain, she’s forgotten she’s a mother”
«It’s an excruciating pain, she’s forgotten she’s a mother. She must pay for what she did. If she had regretted it and she had apologized to me… but she didn’t. Now I wouldn’t be able to tell her anything». These are the first words with which Maria, mother of Alessia Pifferi, comments on her daughter’s life sentence for having allowed little Diana, just 18 months old, to die of starvation.
Alessia Pifferi sentenced to life imprisonment
Alessia Pifferi was sentenced to life imprisonment for letting her 18-month-old daughter Diana die of starvation, abandoned at home alone for 6 days in July 2022. This was decided today by the Court of Assizes of Milan.
Judges in chambers for the sentence
The judges of the Court of Assizes of Milan have retired to their chambers to decide the sentence in the trial against Alessia Pifferi, accused of the murder of her 18-month-old daughter Diana. President Ilio Mannucci Pacini made it known that the parties will be notified half an hour before the device is read. After the speech by the defender Alessia Pontenani, the prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi replied. «There is only one victim and her name is Diana. And there is a liar who is Alessia Pifferi, an actress who is Alessia Pifferi. I ask you not to recognize any benefits”
Civil party: «Chilling case, Alessia Pifferi is guilty»
«We are faced with a chilling case, in which responsibility is clear. In this trial there is only one truth: Alessia Pifferi is guilty of the murder of little Diana.” Thus the lawyer Emanuele De Mitri, civil party lawyer, in the trial against the 37-year-old for having allowed her 18-month-old daughter to die of starvation. «Pifferi killed his daughter, leaving her alone without water or food for six days. She clearly knew that her daughter would die. Pifferi betrayed little Diana, he betrayed Diana’s body. Pifferi – added the lawyer – was a presumptuous woman. She didn’t ask her family for help, even though she knew that the family would have helped her, hiding what she was doing.” Her mother Maria and her sister Viviana were in fact «the only ones who gave her a hand. Her mother tried in every way to support Alessia Pifferi. Although relations were tense, Viviana saw Diana’s birth as a miracle. They could never have thought that Pifferi would abandon the little girl in that way.” The lawyer requested compensation of 200 thousand euros for her mother and 150 thousand euros for her sister, or a provisional amount of 100 thousand euros each.
Pifferi’s defense: «Co-responsible family»
“There was no voluntariness: if he had wanted to kill her he would have made her disappear.” This is supported by Alessia Pontenani, a lawyer who defends Alessia Pifferi accused of the aggravated murder of her daughter Diana, who was only 18 months old and died of starvation. «On that damned July 14th (of 2022, ed.), she left with a small trolley, not with two huge suitcases» and left the little girl alone to join her partner in the province of Bergamo.
«He leaves her to eat and drink, he leaves her in her bed without sheets, he leaves the windows open; then we don’t know what happened, if the plans of this single mother were shattered »she adds in her speech in the courtroom in Milan. A woman whose “neglect” and “inability to look after” the child is repeatedly recalled by the defender who invokes infirmity for her assistant who lets herself cry silently. “That little body needed love and protection that she failed to give her,” she adds. She returns a week after abandoning little Diana and «She doesn’t stage the disappearance of the little girl or the kidnapping. He could have put her in a shopping bag and made her disappear and no one would have noticed because this little girl was a ghost that no one has ever heard cry. If the accused has committed a crime “it is that of child abandonment”. Alessia Pifferi must be granted generic mitigating circumstances “because she never made fun of anyone”, she “never thought about the consequences of her actions so much so that she given the alarm. Had this horrible crime been premeditated, we would not be here, but looking for a missing child. There is a crime in our code which is the abandonment of a minor: it is our case, it is the case of Diana.” «he does it the first time he goes to the supermarket without his daughter, in the first weekend in which he leaves her alone at home, in the second, in the last damn week. He hoped, he believed in his heart that nothing would happen». she was a woman abandoned to herself. I understand the family’s pain, perhaps justified by the fear of being called into question with a form of co-responsibility; and perhaps co-responsibility is held by those who heard her cry and did not intervene or not one week he didn’t care if it was this little girl; everyone is responsible” urges the lawyer who asks for acquittal and leaves “Alessia and Diana in the hands of the judges. It’s time for both of these unfortunate people to truly have justice.”
The civil party seeks compensation for the defendant’s sister and mother
Alessia Pifferi, on trial for the death of her daughter, “betrayed little Diana, she killed voluntarily, leaving her alone without water and without food for six days”. This was stated by Emanuele Di Mitri, civil lawyer of Viviana Pifferi and Maria Assandri, sister and mother of Alessia Pifferi, on trial for the death of her 18-month-old daughter Diana, requesting compensation for moral damage of 200 thousand euros for the grandmother of the little girl and 150 thousand for the aunt. The 38-year-old “restrained her daughter’s abandonment behavior by telling everyone a lot of lies – she explained before the Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Ilio Mannucci Pacini – she voluntarily accepted the only possible outcome, the death of her daughter”, concluded the civil party lawyer.
Alessia Pifferi.
Today new hearing and probable sentence on the case. The accused «had a terrible childhood and a terrible adolescence, and grew up carelessly. It’s not our job to make moral judgments.” Alessia Pontenani, lawyer for the woman accused of the multi-aggravated murder of her almost 18-month-old daughter, who was abandoned and left to die of starvation, said this before asking for absolution for her client.
“It’s clear that he didn’t want to kill the little girl – he continued – it’s undeniable that she already had problems in kindergarten, she took a pacifier until she was 11”. The lawyer’s speech follows the request of prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi, who in the previous hearing had instead asked for a life sentence for the 38-year-old. In his speech, Pontenani then reminded the court of the hearing in which the medical records and the analysis of Pifferi’s family were brought.
