Careless of the opinion of psychiatrists and criminologists, supported by her whole family Anna Maria Franzoni organizes, for Samuel her son, a funeral[1] which is perfect from a media point of view: she claims a band, the children of the village each of them with a bunch of flowers in their hands[2], she doesn’t forget to go to the hairdresser and look after her make-up
A very long line of people, the inhabitants who are there to salute and offer their condolences to Anna Maria, forms at the funeral: for each of them the woman has a different word. ” She was really perfect” – an acquaintance says. The mayor and all the cogneins, at first, accept reluctantly the request of a band[3] and the children with flowers. They rally around Lorenzi Family to protect those persons they don’t consider, after all, their fellow villagers, then, shocked by the Lorenzi’s charges against the villagers themselves, they rediscover their dignity of highlanders and shut themselves up in the ancient silence of the woods and mountains.
The event of Cogne includes many typical aspects of Italian reality:
In ancient Greece scapegoats Οι φαρμακοι were fellows in the flesh who blamed themselves for the wrongs of the community and when they were killed or sent away the community was considered set free and purified. We don’t kill sacrificial victims but make use of them as scapegoats, oi farmaco, already pre-established victims and in order to make the transposition more acceptable we turn them into heroes.
[1]In little Samuel‘s homicide we find a victim whose innocence, the small white coffin is the symbol, and whose silence are such as to give us a perfect Sacrificial Victim. His mother’s return home from the jail, conciding with Easter, makes the symbolism more disturbing.
[2]Just Mrs Franzoni had called, one after the other, all the mothers of Cogne asking them to take their children. And flowers, so many flowers.
[3]A band at Cogne had never been seen.
[4]In ancient Rome the persons who committed particular crimes and above all public personalities who, according to those who remained, had sullied themselves with particular faults, were condemned to damnatio memoriae, that is the removal of their names from any document or epigraph so that not even their memory could remain.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
1) Murderous Mothers First Part
2) Murderous Mothers Second Part
3) Murderous Mothers Third Part
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