Overview
- Police found Giovanni, 9, dead in his mother's apartment on Wednesday night after the father raised the alarm when the child was not returned as scheduled.
- The mother, Olena Stasiuk, was treated for superficial self-inflicted wounds, placed under arrest in Trieste, and her detention was confirmed as investigators ordered forensic examinations and an autopsy.
- Records describe years of warnings and reports, including a 2018 threat by Stasiuk and a 2023 episode in which the boy said she tried to strangle him, before visits shifted from supervised to unaccompanied in May 2025.
- Public prosecutor Alessandro Perogio is leading the homicide probe, while the Justice Ministry is seeking a report on the tribunal decision attributed to Judge Filomena Piccirillo that permitted unaccompanied contact.
- Mental-health services say Stasiuk was followed from 2017 until an agreed interruption in 2023, and her defense plans to request a psychiatric evaluation as Muggia declares a day of mourning and support for the child's school community.