Overview

• Juana Rivas has lodged a cassation appeal with Italy’s Supreme Court seeking to overturn February’s decision granting custody of Daniel to Francesco Arcuri
• The Fiscalía General de Cagliari has formally joined her effort in light of allegations that Arcuri subjected the boy to physical and psychological abuse
• The contested Cagliari Appeals Court ruling ignored earlier Supreme Court directives and proceeded despite an ongoing criminal investigation against Arcuri
• Daniel remains under protective measures in Spain after a Granada instruction court heard his testimony of alleged mistreatment and suspended his return to Italy
• Spain’s Audiencia Provincial de Granada is set to decide whether to transfer Rivas’s criminal complaint against Arcuri to the Italian justice system