Like it happened in other parts of the world and particularly in the United States, in Italy cases of murderous mothers followed one another with a growing frequency, nearly montly , giving the phenomenon the feature of a real epidemic which didn’t neglect any social class.
Yet the category of murderous mother shouldn’t have completely affirmed, if there hadn’t been the case of Cogne.
On the wave of her immediate emotions, Anna Maria Franzoni, the mother accused of having killed Samuel, her son of three years of age with a blunt instrument, had left herself do a particularly vulgar gesture: the middle finger up to mean” fuck off….”, towards telecameras and photographers [1] who, on the first day of the inquiry, were waiting for her outside the barracks of Cogne.
After overcoming the impact Franzoni becomes, progressively, the perfect protagonist of what more than a tragedy we prefer considering a soap opera or an Italian style thriller. Like all Italian Style thrillers the inquiry is, at present, at a deadlock and it isn’t so unlikely no responsability may be ascertained in the future. Just because it wasn’t possible to ascertain the truth in a short time, the thriller of Cogne, that is a mother charged with her son’s murder, could, for long time, keep media attention alive with interviews, poisons, calumnies, mutual charges, experts’ opinions, criminologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, journalists, writers, priests, actresses, idlers, people not better identified.
As to comments on the case of Cogne we point out:
“Munchausen syndrome[2] might have an important role in the crime of Cogne”. The investigating magistrate of Aosta who was involved in the case.
[1] Curiously Erica De Nardo, on the morning after the homicide of her mother and brother, had done the same gesture.
[2] Munchausen syndrome was described for the first time in 1951 by R. Asher and his team and it’s characterized by ” a more or less conscious simulation of diseases,coercion to lies, going to and fro from a hospital to another; it may show itself with abdominal, neurologic, hemorrhagic and also dermatologic symptoms or with temperature; the troubles the patients reveal are feigned”. Lies excluded, it’s evident that Munchausen syndrome has nothing to do with the crime of Cogne.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
6) Murderous mothers Sixth Part
See also:
1) Murderous Mothers First Part
2) Murderous Mothers Second Part
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