A series of eight double murders, 16 innocent victims, which took place between 1968 and 1985
in the Tuscan province that terrorized the country and upset its social balance, writing one of the darkest and most complex pages of contemporary Italian criminal history. "
The Monster of Florence: That silence that is not silent - Lies and truths'",
a co-production of Rai Documentari and Verve Media Company, is the third appointment for the Crime doc series by Rai Documentari, broadcast on Thursday 9 December in prime time on Rai Two, preceded by a preview in which
Gianrico Carofiglio, writer and former magistrate, will lead the viewer into the story of this dramatic story.
The protagonist of the docuseries is the case of crime par excellence:
the crimes of the Monster of Florence.
No crime news has frightened Italian families as much as the crimes of the Monster of Florence and no other investigation has divided public opinion and the judiciary so much, and continues to be discussed today. A powerful and dark story that has filled TV broadcasts and pages of newspapers becoming the first criminal case to inaugurate the media spectacularization of justice in our country.
The sentences in three different levels of judgment have established that that of Florence is a three-headed monster, those of Pacciani, Vanni and Lotti
. But does the procedural truth coincide with the reality of the facts? Today, more than 50 years after the first murder, the docuseries asks these questions and retraces the "novel" of the Monster of Florence, recounting the investigations with its many leads, the wars between the prosecutors, the psychosis of the monster in the 80s, the Pacciani trial and that of the "Compagni di merende", through the testimonies of the protagonists and the precious images from the photographic video repertoire that tell an era. Thanks to a careful and scrupulous re-reading of the investigations, evidence, testimonies and procedural documents, and through the analysis of the crime scenes by technicians, witnesses and experts, the dynamics of some of those crimes will be retraced comparison with the investigative and procedural evidence.
Because there are only two certainties: that the same pistol, a Beretta .22 caliber, killed 16 lives, leaving behind a long trail of blood and questions and that for six victims (three of the eight double crimes) none, to date. , was still sentenced.
Subject and script by Luciano Palmerino and Giuseppe Rinaldi, Editing by Leonardo Cariati and Massimiliano Onorati, Executive Producer Paolo Rivieccio, Rai Editorial Supervision Documents by Fabio Mancini Directed by Alessandro Galluzzi.