Missing child in Florence: DDA investigates for kidnapping for extortion

Kidnapping for the purpose of extortion. This is the crime title with which the case was opened by the prosecutor's office Florence regarding the disappearance of the little girl Kataleya Mia Alvarez, missing since Saturday from occupied Astor Hotel.

This is a crime under the jurisdiction of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate and for this reason it has been assigned to two magistrates. According to the investigative findings, kidnapping is the most likely hypothesis at the moment. In the afternoon, the prosecutor's office interviewed the child's mother and a friend.

The Florence prosecutor's office, in the hours immediately following the report of the child's disappearance, opened an investigation file, initially for the hypothesis of the crime of abandonment of a minor and subsequently for kidnapping.

Kata's mother, as the missing girl is called by relatives and friends, is being questioned as a person informed of the facts.

"The investigators' silence is an active one because they are evaluating every hypothesis and they are evaluating every report, there is nothing else to say. The mother has clarified everything, she has reported her version of the facts with respect to every circumstance and the investigators are evaluating everything in their possession to date".

This was stated by the lawyer Daica Rometta of the Penelope association who accompanied the mother of Kataleya, the 5-year-old girl who has been missing since last Saturday, to the prosecutor's office. FlorenceThe lawyer spoke in front of the former Astor Hotel, while the mother returned from the building without making any statements.

“The investigations are ongoing and are being kept strictly confidential,” the lawyer added. “The mother was interviewed and recounted that day and clarified every aspect. I was not present, she is the injured party so she does not need my presence when she is interviewed.”

Then, answering to those who asked her if there were names registered in the register of suspects, the lawyer Rometta said that "we know nothing about this. As the Penelope association we have taken the field to support this mother who is living through dramatic times and we all hope that good news arrives".