VIVIANA PARISI / “Unreliable testimonies, the key to the case is her illness”

The case of Viviana Parisi and her son Gioele is increasingly confused. In fact, new testimonies have emerged: a man declared that after the accident he saw the live child in his mother’s arms “without any wound and with his eyes open”. It is precisely the fact that there is no trace of Gioele the most disturbing thing, after the mother’s body was found five days after the accident in the motorway tunnel in the countryside of Caronia in the province of Messina, a short distance from the accident site. . For the authorities all the hypotheses are open, only the one that mother and child were loses weight killed by wild animals. The one that holds up the most at the moment, also according to Professor Francesco Bruno, a forensic psychiatrist we interviewed, is that “the mother, distraught by pain and in shock, walked away with her child’s body in her arms, only to hide it and commit suicide , launching from a pylon ”. What doesn’t hold up, says Bruno, are these testimonies, “not able to give convincing details”.

Professor, the case of Mrs. Viviana and her son Gioele is less and less clear. What idea did you have at this point?

The information for our use is limited. We know that this lady was very fond of the child and worked as a DJ, but nothing is known about his previous life. It was simply said, even if there was no further talk of it, that in recent times she had had a depression and had been hospitalized for it.

What weight does it give to the thesis of depression?

I have been a forensic psychiatrist for many years, I have faced many similar cases and I find it very difficult for a woman who is a DJ, who has a beautiful family and a mature age to be a case of depression. I also know the psychiatric abilities that exist in Calabria and Sicily and I believe the diagnosis was wrong.

Meaning? What would it be instead?

I think he had a moment of loss of self-control and therefore a schizophrenic psychosis even if with depressive symptoms.

What does this entail?

Depressive symptoms are a serious problem because one is prone to delusion, to have false interpretations of reality. As far as we know he had suffered a lot the lockdown period, he believed that the end of the world was coming because of the virus. In this situation, she asked her husband for the car, saying to get away for a short time for shopping, instead Sant’Agata di Militello went, entered the town for twenty minutes, then crashed into the truck. Today we know that the baby was still alive in his mother’s lap.

Therefore? What would have happened?

It is possible that Parisi after the accident, taken by an incoercible delusion and believing that a more serious trouble was about to happen than the end of the world, which happens to schizophrenics, that is the end of the end at any moment, from which it is impossible to defend yourself, she decided for her mother spirit to kill her son to protect him and took her own life.

In fact, no gunshot or stab wounds were found on his body. But the baby?

The child is not found because he has hidden him, thrown somewhere in the sea, or in a well, where he cannot be easily found taking into account the place and the animals. I think the baby is no longer alive.

However, witnesses continue to appear who say they saw the woman holding the baby, are they credible in your opinion?

I don’t believe in these testimonies in the least.

Because?

Many times when people disappear, perhaps because they leave, want to hide or end up in some trouble, they are seen by numerous characters who are not able to give convincing details. Again, I believe these testimonies are bogus.

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