Overview
- Police report the father raised the alarm after he could not reach the mother, and officers found the child dead in the central Muggia apartment.
- The woman, 55 and Ukrainian, is separated from the boy’s Italian father, who resides outside Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
- Local services indicate the mother was followed by the mental health center, and the family was under the watch of social services and the family court.
- Initial accounts say a kitchen knife was used and the mother then attempted a self-harm gesture.
- The boy attended the Slovenian-language elementary school in Muggia, and the town’s mayor described the family’s situation as difficult but not dramatic.