Overview
- The three siblings remain in a residential home in the Vasto area with parental responsibility suspended, following the court’s confirmation of their placement.
- The court named psychiatrist Simona Ceccoli as its expert to conduct personological and psychodiagnostic evaluations of the parents and children, with the assignment to be formally conferred on January 5 and a 120‑day deadline.
- The father’s Christmas Day access ran from 10:00 to 12:30, and the facility denied a request to stay for lunch, citing internal rules and the risk of creating a precedent; routine visits are two one‑hour sessions per week.
- Judges cited what they called parents’ considerable rigidity and lack of stable cooperation, along with developmental and health concerns, including the eldest child’s delays in literacy and earlier medical reluctance after a mushroom intoxication.
- Political reaction intensified as Matteo Salvini condemned the holiday separation, while local supporters offered a serviced house and tutors began school enrollment steps for the children.