Dead of hardship, starving and dehydrated? Or even drugged?

The autopsy and toxicological examination are awaited to ascertain the causes of the death of little Diana, found lifeless in Milan by her mother who had left her alone at home for six days to spend time with her partner who lives in the Bergamo area. .

It also investigates the benzodiazepine bottle found next to the bottle and the baby's body, which was on a camping cot. The mother may have drugged her before she left. A bottle of anxiolytic was also found in the kitchen, which Alessia Pifferi - 37 - said to belong to her ex-partner.

" I chose my partner and not her ," said the woman, who is in prison for voluntary murder, to the investigating judge.

"I was counting on the possibility of having a future with him (who is not the child's father, ed), that's what I was trying to understand, so I thought it crucial not to interrupt those days when I was with him, even when I had fear that the child might be sick or die ”, her words.

This is the key step in the interrogation. The companion was also questioned: "He told me he preferred to live without the child, so she breathed, if he had brought her I would have been pleased , but she always told me that Diana stayed with her sister or with the babysitter".

The investigating judge outlines the profile of a woman "prone to mystification" and "without respect for human life" , with a "form of psychological dependence on her current partner that led her to put the possibility of maintaining a relationship with him first. at the cost of inflicting enormous suffering on the child ”.