Manfredi, here we are: that day has arrived. The murderer of his mother Alberica, the butler, returns to freedom.
“Yup, after only 10 years in prison. A breath, when viewed over a lifetime. The Filipino, who was not a servant but a simple worker, was sentenced to 16 years, which are already few. But above all, let’s not forget, he was caught after he had gone free and carefree for twenty years, just him, the easiest of suspects … It looks like a movie, but it’s reality…»
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There is sarcasm in his words.
«No, they are simple observations. Before, justice was not able to do its job, running after imaginative and unfounded tracks that have only served to hurt the people already affected by the tragedy, that is us. Then, after the investigation was reopened thanks to my father’s tenacity, a light sentence arrived, with an abbreviated procedure. And now, for that set of delinquent-friendly rules and quibbles typical of this country, the joke has arrived. Everything as expected ».
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Manfredi Mattei, the 39-year-old son of Countess Alberica Filo della Torre, strangled and massacred with a hoof in his villa in Olgiata on 10 July 1991, veils great bitterness with irony: the news of Manuel Winston Reyes coming out of Rebibbia did not take him by surprise. The Filipino servant framed in 2011 by a phone call and DNA taken from a bloodstain on the noblewoman’s sheet will be released on the morning of Monday 11 October, six years early, for good behavior and various benefits.
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Months ago she declared that she wanted to wait for him outside the prison to shake his hand and say: “Bravo, you killed my mother and you screwed it up.” He will do it?
“It was hyperbole, I don’t have time to waste. However, if I happen to cross him, of course I would tell him. He took everyone for a ride. I would compliment him for being able to live as a free man for so long, having a family, and even giving the name of my mom to her daughter, for an absurd and unbelievable mental lucubration. Who knows what their heads tell some people. “
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She has not forgiven.
“Look, I have no hatred or hatred for the Filipino. Just indifference. He is a poor fellow, he does not have the danger or the criminal caliber of a Camorra guappo. At least the sentence in full, however, would have to serve it. In life, sooner or later you die, this is a certainty, while it is justice in Italy that does not give certainty. And it is the thing that makes the most anger ».
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Are you referring to the investigators who transformed the death of his mother into one of the great Italian cold cases, when instead it was a tragic and terrible story but basically banal?
“I’m talking about the system as a whole, which is unworthy, unable to do justice and protect the citizen. If it is true that DNA techniques have evolved, and therefore the delay of certain exams could also be explained, the interception of the phone call in which the Filipino spoke with a fence about how to place my mother’s jewels has always been there. . It was a queen test right from the start. But incredibly, the text of the conversation, while the most imaginative hypotheses were being fired upon in the newspapers, had neither been transcribed nor translated ».
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In the past you attacked her “the magistrates who traveled the world in 5-star hotels, with the excuse of solving the mystery of Olgiata.”
“Sure, it’s the plain truth. My father suffered genuine persecution: the brusque interrogations, the smiles, the allusions to non-existent lovers. And then the bogus tracks of the secret services, of black funds, of tax evasion, thanks to which magistrates and investigators have made useless trips around the world, from Luxembourg to Hong Kong, passing through Zurich ».
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But why pursue unfounded and unsubstantiated traces for so long? Where was the short circuit in his mother’s yellow?
«In the first place I put incompetence, superficiality. Then the desire for visibility of the investigators, the vanity in wanting to see themselves again on the news or on the front page, under increasingly fired headlines. And finally, a completely unacceptable ideological attitude: wanting to demonstrate at any cost that in a certain world of wealthy and respectable people, like ours, the rotten is always found ”. ([email protected])
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