Overview

• The family apartment near Palermo’s central station and a bottle of gasoline were seized by Squadra Mobile investigators as part of the probe.
• An autopsy and toxicology analyses have been ordered at the Policlinico’s legal medicine institute to clarify the cause of death.
• Investigators have interviewed the victim’s mother, her partner and her biological father under the direction of the juvenile prosecutor.
• The juvenile court activated PrInS to place Maria’s four younger siblings in foster care under coordinated social services oversight.
• Maria, 11, suffered from drug-resistant epilepsy and encephalitis that left her tetraplegic and frequently hospitalized prior to her collapse.