Overview
- Italian magistrates opened urgent checks into whether Nicole Minetti misled authorities to obtain a presidential pardon.
- The Milan prosecutor general said it launched Interpol requests for information from abroad to test press claims about the child’s status and health needs.
- President Sergio Mattarella asked the Justice Ministry to review the file after Il Fatto Quotidiano reported that the boy was not an orphan and that his parents tried to block the 2023 adoption.
- The pardon was issued in February on humanitarian grounds tied to the child’s care, and the decision became public only after an April leak.
- Opposition parties are calling for Justice Minister Carlo Nordio to resign, and prosecutors say their findings could lead to a revised clemency recommendation.