Perhaps he couldn't handle the avalanche of hatred via social media and the insinuations about a review made only to advertise his place. Accusations that will weigh like rocks for Giovanna Pedretti, the restaurateur from Sant'Angelo Lodigiano who, responding to a homophobic and discriminatory review of her restaurant, had given a lesson in civility .
The woman was found dead yesterday afternoon on the banks of the Lambro, most likely a voluntary act according to the investigators who ordered the autopsy on the body of the 59-year-old.
The owner of the "Le Vignole" pizzeria had responded to a review from a customer who complained about having eaten next to a table with a gay couple and a disabled boy. She had asked him not to return to the club again, "I don't think it's for her."
The review was from last summer and was then deleted, explained Giovanna, who however had taken a screenshot of it. This is an element that has raised suspicions about the veracity of the review on social media. In particular, Selvaggia Lucarelli and her partner Lorenzo Biagiarelli: Lucarelli launched the hypothesis of a "gross photomontage" and a "marketing operation passed off as heroic defense of gays and disabled people" .
The hypothesis of a fake begins to circulate on the web and in newspapers, the first cracks appear and Giovanna, who until 24 hours earlier was a heroine, takes the car and goes to the banks of the Lambro, where she is found dead. Regarding that review, the restaurateur was also interviewed at the police station.
The woman and her family - she leaves behind her husband and a daughter - had no economic problems according to initial checks by the police. Therefore, the economic situation should not be the reason for the extreme gesture . And the former deputy mayor of Sant'Angelo Lodigiano clarifies: «He didn't need to work more, his restaurant was always full . She wished she could breathe a little more, actually, since she couldn't find employees to help her. I find it incredible to suggest that he could have invented that review ." More than 10 years ago, he reported, "his brother had also killed himself."
And Lorenzo Biagiarelli , Lucarelli's partner, the one who first expressed doubts about the authenticity of the review , forcefully rejects the accusations of social hatred caused by him: «I am very sorry about the death of Mrs. Giovanna and my thoughts go to her family », he writes on Instagram, but invites us to «reflect on the consequences of the attempt to re-establish the truth, if we were to always fear this epilogue at this point we would have to close everything, newspapers and social media».
«Mrs Giovanna – he continues – in these two days has received nothing but praise and declarations of esteem from the press, and only a few meager and laborious attempts to re-establish the truth which, in any case, does not have and would never have had equal strength. I invite you, if you really think that Mrs. Giovanna took her own life due to non-existent 'social hatred', to reflect on the concept of truth. If every person who tries to re-establish the truth in every story, big or small, were to fear this epilogue, at that point we would have to close everything, newspapers and social media . The hateful messages you are writing to me, on the other hand, are of such violence and quantity that actually, even to a not too fragile person, they could make them think of an extreme gesture. In the meantime, I will continue to look for the truth in things."
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(Unioneonline/L)