Overview

• A three-expert panel appointed by the Milan Court of Assizes of Appeal concluded Pifferi had full capacity to understand and to will at the time of the facts.
• The team—Giacomo Francesco Filippini, Nadia Bolognini and Stefano Benzoni—conducted a six‑month evaluation in Vigevano prison and found no psychiatric disorder or clinically significant cognitive impairment affecting responsibility.
• Their mandate included reviewing two earlier July 2022 episodes when the child was left alone and survived, and the conclusions align with first‑trial expert Elvezio Pirfo’s perizia.
• The report will be discussed on 24 September in open court with substitute attorney general Lucilla Tontodonati present alongside her consultants Patrizia De Losa and Valentina Crespi, defense lawyer Alessia Pontenani and civil party counsel Emanuele De Mitri.
• In a separate proceeding dubbed “Pifferi bis,” prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi seeks indictments over an alleged manipulation of a WAIS IQ test to show a score of 40, with a GUP hearing before Roberto Crepaldi set for 11 September and interrogations planned.