The father of the Palmoli children will only be able to see his children at Christmas for a few hours. The facility denies lunch together “to avoid precedents”. Meanwhile, the controversy over the psychiatric assessment ordered by the Juvenile Court explodes
Christmas, for the family of the Palmoli forest, will be marked by the clock. No shared table, no lunch symbol of unity and reconciliation. Nathan Trevallion will be able to meet his children on December 25th only for two and a half hours, from 10am to 12.30pm, inside the protected structure that hosts them. Beyond that limit, no exemptions.
The request to spend Christmas lunch together was rejected. The reason, communicated by the head of the minors service of the family home, is formal but weighty: the internal regulations do not provide for it and granting it to a parent would open the way to other similar requests. In other words, a precedent.
A no that weighs more than the calendar
The denial comes at a time already marked by difficult decisions. Just a few hours earlier, the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila had ruled out family reunification, confirming the placement of the three minors in the facility Vast. The children – six-year-old twins and their eight-year-old older sister – live there with their mother, who can see them for a few hours a day.
The father, who has been living in Milan since the end of November Palmolihad entrusted the request for a “normal” Christmas to the lawyers Marco Femminella and Danila Solinas. The answer was a calendar, not a table.
The psychiatric report sparks the conflict
What makes the matter even more divisive is the Court’s decision to order a psycho-diagnostic assessment on the entire family unit. The appointed consultant, the psychiatrist Simona Ceccoli, will have 120 days to evaluate the psychological profile of the parents, their educational skills, the ability to respond to the emotional needs of the children and the possible recoverability of parental functions in times compatible with the growth of the minors.
The assessment will also concern children: living conditions, cognitive and emotional development, reference figures, identification models. A broad investigation, which for critics risks turning into a prolonged suspension of affectivity.
Politics enters the case
He also spoke on the dossier Matteo Salviniwho spoke openly of “state violence”, denouncing the absurdity of a separation that lasts until Christmas day. Words that reflect a broader malaise: that of a part of public opinion that sees the rigidity of procedures as a short circuit between protection and dehumanization.
Meanwhile, for this family, Christmas remains confined to one time slot. Without lunch, without toast. And with a question that remains suspended: when does protection stop being care and become distance?
