Overview

• The girl was taken by her mother at age three after a Milan court ordered her placement in public care between 2013 and 2014.
• Complex investigations by Milan’s women and minors unit and the Carabinieri traced her to Valencia, where she had lived under a false name for over a decade.
• Authorities executed a European arrest warrant to detain the mother and her partner on aggravated kidnapping and international abduction charges.
• The teenager’s grandmother and another relative have been placed under house arrest for allegedly assisting in the concealment.
• The 14-year-old is now safe in Italian custody while prosecutors continue probing the cross-border network behind her disappearance.