Inspectors from the Ministry of Justice are arriving in L'Aquila to investigate the case of the family in the woods . Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced the news, once again criticizing the magistrates' decision to separate the mother from her three children . These decisions are "also the result of ideological interpretations" and inflict "another very serious trauma" on those children , she told Fuori dal Coro on Rete 4, announcing that "Minister Nordio is sending an inspection; I spoke to him yesterday." The investigation at Via Arenula had already begun in November, coinciding with the order suspending the parental responsibility of the Anglo-Australian couple. At the time, it was limited to examining the documentation, but the minister has now decided to send inspectors to the Juvenile Court in L'Aquila. Tonino Cantelmi, the expert who coordinates the Birmingham-Trevallion family's team of psychologists, also believes that the decision to remove mother Catherine represents a "wrong" and "dangerous" path that risks leading the "forest children" to adoption.
On Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced in a Facebook post that he will visit the Anglo-Australian couple next week , "not as a prime minister or a minister, but as a father and a parent disgusted by this form of institutionalized violence," he said. And today, the Regional Ombudsman for Children visited the family home to ask that the children not leave the facility where they have been housed for four months. "We are making sure the children do not leave this facility." The transfer of the children—ordered by the Juvenile Court of L'Aquila—is one of the key issues lawyers Marco Femminella and Danila Solinas are working on. Some family homes, in fact, would like to avoid the spotlight, while others are said to be incompatible with the parents' need to see their children because they are too far from the home where Catherine and Nathan currently live, not far from the now-infamous "house in the woods." The judges' order, however, is clear: the children must be moved elsewhere , and therefore, if the decision were to be made to leave them there, a new provision would be required.
