Milan, Aug. 26 (LaPresse) – The family of Alessia Pifferi has expressed “satisfaction” with the results of the psychiatric report, which confirmed her full mental competence when she let her daughter Diana die of starvation. The news was conveyed by lawyer Emanuele De Mitri, who represents the 40-year-old’s mother and sister as civil parties in the aggravated voluntary homicide appeal trial. The report “confirmed what had already been established in the first trial and consistently maintained,” De Mitri said on behalf of the relatives. Pifferi is “a person fully aware of her actions, not suffering from any disorder, but simply presumptuous and arrogant in her everyday behavior.” The lawyer stressed that from an “initial reading” of the psychiatrists’ six-month evaluation—conducted in Vigevano prison and including an analysis of the defendant’s medical and school records as a minor—“it is clear that there was no behavior or event in her childhood or adolescence that could have influenced her future conduct,” contrary to what Pifferi had partially suggested during the trial, when she spoke of alleged abuse suffered as a child.
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