Overview
- Olena Stasiuk was arrested after hospital treatment for superficial self-inflicted cuts, with investigators attributing the killing of her son Giovanni to a knife attack in her apartment.
- The Trieste prosecutor’s office led by Alessandro Perogio and the Squadra Mobile are reconstructing the events, with autopsy and forensic examinations pending.
- A May 13 tribunal order had shifted from supervised to weekly unsupervised visits, despite earlier reports that the child feared his mother and a 2023 episode in which he was found with a neck bruise.
- The Ministry of Justice has requested a report on the court’s decision, the arrest has been validated, and the defense plans to seek a psychiatric evaluation of Stasiuk.
- Local authorities declared mourning and activated support for the child’s school and teammates, as social services and mental-health follow-up decisions face renewed scrutiny.