😍 2022-10-01 12:01:34 – Paris/France.
the 70s for Italy They were very convulsive socially and politically. In addition to the murder of the controversial director Pier Paolo Pasolini, there was another crime that shocked this country during those years.
The story took place in 1975. Three boys kidnapped, abused and tortured two girls. One of them died, the other managed to escape in an incredible way and was able to tell his story.
A few days ago, Netflix released "The Catholic School", a film by director Stefano Mordini based on this event. The case marked a before and after in Italian society.
The story told on the digital platform is a free version of what really happened. The film, released in September 2022, has been banned in Italy for people under 18.
The three friends
The beginning of events dates back to September 1975 in Rome, Italy. Gianni Guido, Angelo Izzo and Andrea Ghira They were three boys in their twenties from the Roman upper class and students of a religious school.
The young people seemed good and nice, but they still had a great fanaticism for fascism. The three friends were violent and occasionally committed a few armed robberies just for fun.
Angelo Izzo was the leader and most fearsome of the three, as he had received a suspended sentence for rape. Gradually, the group was increasing the level of vandalism and soon after, the worst would happen.
Gianni Guido and Angelo Izzo arrested by police outside Rome.
power and seduction
In September of that year, Guido and Izzo meet, Donatella Colasanti (17) et Rosary Lopez (19 years old), two young people from a popular neighborhood. The boys flirted with the two young women so much that they decided to meet again after a few days, inviting them on a date.
After seducing them, Angelo Izzo offers to kidnap the two girls, rape and torture them. The others didn't agree at first, but ended up agreeing.
On the afternoon of September 29, 1975, Rosaria and Donatella met Guido, Izzo and Ghira in central Rome. They had made an appointment to go to the cinema and then have a drink, but the three men, following their plan, proposed to change their plans: to spend the afternoon at the weekend house of the parents of the one of them, facing the sea, in San Felice de Circeo. They were also told that more boys and girls would go that night to party.
When they arrived, Rosaria and Donatella could barely appreciate the beauty of the house. It had been less than half an hour Izzo threatened them with a gun and forced them to strip.
The actors who represent Gianni Guido, Angelo Izzo and Andrea Ghira in the film "The Catholic School".
More than 30 hours of suffering
The farm where the tragic events took place was located in Felice Circeo, on the coast of Lazio, just over 100 kilometers from Rome. The gang's plan was to leave the bodies abandoned in the city, so that no one would link the deaths to where they had occurred.
For more than 30 hours, the three young men took it upon themselves to rape and torture them, until they made the decision to beat them to death. And they executed her.
They wrapped the girls in blankets, put them in the trunk of Izzo's Fiat 147, and drove to town. Since there was still quite a lot of movement in the street, they decided to leave the car parked, go get something to eat and then leave the bodies.
At no time did it occur to them that after the brutal beating they thought was fatal, one could be alive. Indeed, Donatella stayed still and silent in the trunk until the car stopped. and heard them walk away. After that he started hitting the plate and asking for help.
A man walking in the area heard Donatella's sobs and cries; He quickly opened the trunk of the vehicle and they went together to make the police report.
Donatella Colasanti, in hospital, after being rescued.
arrest and conviction
Guido and Izzo were arrested a few hours after the police alert, while Andrea Ghira ran away thanks to a tip that apparently came from the police themselves.
A year later, during the trial, Donatella recounted in great detail the ordeal they had undergone. This is a historic decision for Italian justice. It marked a before and after in the judicial treatment of rape cases.
Izzo was sentenced to life in prison and Guido, for not having found any trace of his DNA in the victims, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The leader of the group, Andrea Ghira, also he was tried in absentia and sentenced to life.
In September 2005, thanks to the interception of telephone communications between members of Ghira's family, who were believed to be alive and whom the Italian authorities were still looking for, it was discovered that he had been buried under another identity in 1994 in Melilla cemetery.
The front page of a Roman newspaper after the news spread across the country.
Donatella Colasanti, a survivor of the tragic event, never knew. He died of cancer a few months before the news broke, aged 47.
"The Catholic School," the new Netflix movie, is a fictionalized version of real events. Director Stefano Mordini decided to tell the story in a context where he explained how Italian society lived in those years, its relationship with the mafias and the political fanaticism of some people.
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