Overview
- Social services, accompanied by police, took the three children to a protective facility, and the mother was permitted to stay the first night.
- The father called the removal an injustice in comments to local newspaper Il Centro.
- The family have lived since 2021 in a remote Abruzzo farmhouse using solar power, a well for water, and home education.
- The case followed a 2024 hospitalisation after the family ate poisonous mushrooms, which brought authorities to the property.
- An online petition has surpassed 13,000 signatures as Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini condemned the decision and said he would seek to intervene.