Francesco Totti and his partner Noemi Bocchi are being investigated for child neglect. By 2023 they will leave their 7, 9 and 11 year old children home alone for three hours. And the nanny was ultimately investigated because she falsely stated that she was at the apartment to establish an alibi for the couple. Repubblica wrote it. But what happened?
Ilary Blasi watches her daughter alone
On May 26, 2023, Ilary Blasi abroad called his daughter Isabel, who was 7 years old at the time and that weekend she was entrusted to her father. The little girl told her mother that she was at her father Francesco Totti’s house with the children of his new partner Noemi Bocchi, who are 9 and 11 years old respectively.
There are no adults at home. Totti and Noemi went out to dinner, leaving them alone at home for three hours.
A phone call from Ilary’s mother
Ilary, frightened, warns her former partner and her mother. At 22.56 Blasi’s mother called 112, reporting that three children were alone and afraid because her grandson had experienced a respiratory crisis. He called for an immediate examination. The patrol car arrived at 23.20, but remained in the square because it wanted to wait for female staff. Meanwhile, according to telephone records, at 23.33 police director Massimo Improta called Carlo Feliziani from AS Roma; two minutes later Feliziani called Vito Scala, who contacted his friend Totti at 23.37. Three very quick steps brought notification to the person concerned, while the police car had been stopped outside the house for twenty minutes. At 23.50 Cristian, 17 years old, arrived. She went to the apartment alone: the officer who stopped, recognized and identified her did not accompany her (because she was a minor) and did not check whether the children were alone in the attic. They remained in the square.
Caregiver statement
At 23.57 the babysitter finally arrived, Cocos Mandica who lives in the same building. The doorman, his colleague, told him to come at the request of someone close to Totti, according to the prosecutor’s office. When officers came in, he was already there. He would tell Blasi’s attorneys that he was in the attic “from 9 p.m. to midnight,” but documents show he entered just minutes before midnight.
However, after a careful investigation, prosecutors believed that the children were not in danger and asked for the case to be dropped. However, attorney Ilary Blasi opposed the move. Lawyer Blasi responded that there was no trace of any official assignment to the woman and, in any case, the little girl was not with two other people but alone, around the large apartment. Minors had access to each environment and no adults were present as of 11:57 p.m. In addition, the police did not arrive for 40 minutes and it took Totti almost half an hour to return after the warning: if something happened, no one could intervene.
