A thousand people in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano for the funeral of Giovanna Pedretti, the 59-year-old restaurateur found dead 8 days ago in the bed of the Lambro river.
In the churchyard of the basilica there is a banner asking the "press and TV" to respect the family's moment of grief. The same one that had appeared in recent days near the woman's home.
Pedretti was praised for having responded in kind to the review of a customer who complained about having eaten in her restaurant - the "Le Vignole" pizzeria in Sant'Angelo - with two homosexuals and a disabled person next to her and was then accused on social media of having invented that review just to gain publicity.
«It is not the media hype that brings us together here but the friendship with Giovanna and the closeness to the family. We are here for her", said Don Enzo Raimondi, who celebrated the funeral with all the parish priests of Sant'Angelo .
«How many false notes we have had to listen to in recent days – he continued -. On the one hand, the pain of someone who felt attacked, a person who has always done something to make this world better. On the other, the summary judgment of those who speak without knowing. Of those who build castles of cards, of those who look for where there is good, of those who think there is a profit. Now there is a family asking for silence. We have experienced the intrusiveness, the insistence of the right to information, the arrogance of those who think they can destroy. We remember Giovanna's honesty and generosity. Perhaps Giovanna made a mistake: having thought for a moment that in addition to the accusing strangers who doubted her, we who knew her might also have doubted her . We must prevent the keyboard lions from destroying everything. Now it's time for silence. What didn't we do, what could we have done? We are convinced that nothing too serious happened. But how many times did Giovanna console us, how many times was she close to us. Even silence now turns into a word, which says respect."
(Unioneonline/D)
