Il caso Montesi fu un fatto di cronaca nera avvenuto in Italia il 9 aprile 1953, inerente alla morte per annegamento della ventunenne Wilma Montesi (Roma, 3 febbraio 1932 - Roma, 9 aprile 1953). Il caso ebbe grande rilievo mediatico a causa del coinvolgimento di numerosi personaggi di spicco nelle indagini successive al presunto delitto. È considerato da molti un caso irrisolto nell'identificazione degli eventi che portarono al decesso della giovane.
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00:13Thank you all
00:37He was just over twenty years old
00:45Maybe he just wanted to have fun
00:50He couldn't imagine what awaited him.
01:00No one could have imagined what would happen
01:27Thank you all
01:46It's seven thirty in the morning
01:48On the beach of Torvajanica
01:50There is a body
01:51A woman's body on the shore
01:55And belly to the ground
01:57On the seashore
01:58Head resting on left arm
02:02Nobody dares to touch it
02:04That woman's body
02:05There is a beautiful picture
02:07It is said that the hair moved like the filaments of a jellyfish.
02:11This long black hair
02:13And she was half naked
02:14Here she is, finally, the woman
02:16Young, very young and beautiful like an actress
02:21He looked like he was sleeping
02:23Well, it's not like she was dead.
02:30He only has a bruise on his forehead
02:32And traces of blood between the mouth and the vessels
02:36He wears under his jacket
02:37A yellow sweater
02:39A white blouse
02:41A heavy wool sweater
02:43An ivory slip
02:44Pink bra
02:46And white panties
02:48It has no rubber
02:50No shoes
02:50And not even the socks
02:52At 9.30
02:54It's the turn of the doctor of Pomezia
02:56Confirm his death
02:58Most likely hypothesis
03:01Drowning
03:01Eye
03:02They took the body
03:04Hug
03:05They moved him onto the sand
03:07So they waited for hours and hours
03:08Why a magistrate gave the green light
03:10They loaded the body into a van
03:12And they brought him
03:13But by that point it was night
03:14At the morgue in Rome
03:17The woman doesn't have a name yet
03:19The newspapers already have the news on the page
03:22Ready for the next morning's edition
03:24Beautiful, dead and mysterious
03:26Stop
03:28No one knows yet that for three days
03:30A father and a boyfriend
03:31They are wandering around police stations and hospitals
03:34Desperately looking for that girl
03:45Sunday morning
03:46April 12, 1953
03:47A scream pierces the silence of the Rome morgue.
03:53They killed her for me
03:54Angelo Giuliani
03:56Public safety officer at the Potenza police station
04:00He just recognized his girlfriend in the corpse
04:03Bilma Montesi
04:0421 years old
04:05The girl who looked like an actress is called Bilma Montesi
04:09And she was killed
04:12But why?
04:14And from whom?
04:15And how can the boyfriend be so sure of it?
04:18A case that was calmly heading towards being archived as a suicide
04:25It has this relevance because it can finally be put into someone's mouth
04:31What everyone thought
04:33And that is, someone killed her.
04:44To understand something, we need to start from her.
04:48From the victim
04:49Pretty
04:49Dead
04:50With name and surname
04:52But no less mysterious for that.
04:55We simply know that she is a girl from a lower middle class family
05:00Who lives a simple and normal life
05:03Without particular situations
05:08May they point it out among the many others in Italy at that time
05:15Bilma Montesi is what you would call a simple girl
05:18He is 21 years old
05:19He lives with his father, mother, brother and sister.
05:22A more than decent house at number 76 Via Tagliamento
05:26According to family members
05:28Vilma is a good girl
05:29Shy, religious and modest
05:31Vilma was a girl to marry
05:34One like this
05:35Why she had to be killed
05:39Mysteries
05:39But there is a very important background to the morgue.
05:43Why is the girl brought at midnight at night?
05:47At 5:00 past midnight a journalist from the messenger shows up
05:50Who gives a tip to a janitor
05:52And the cold room is opened
05:55And observe the condition of the body
05:59The attention and the need are still inexplicable today
06:03Of a journalist at midnight to go and see this body
06:06He said he had a tip-off
06:08But he never explained on whose behalf
06:14At 11am on April 14, 1953
06:1776 hours after the body was found
06:20Vilma Montesi is undergoing an autopsy
06:25The autopsy is done like this without controversy and without infamy
06:30The autopsy has no time limit, let's say
06:33It can last an hour, an hour and a half
06:36A normal case
06:37The autopsy technique is the same for everyone
06:40It's cut from the jugular, that's fine
06:42Here at the base of the neck, okay
06:45And we arrive at the public region
06:47She was a beautiful girl
06:49Plus she was in her slip
06:51There was something, right?
06:53Which then in those times rapidly fueled
06:56Fantasies about a sexualization of the story
07:03I heard about Montesi
07:08You also have to be careful what you say
07:11Even then there was a judicial authority like today
07:15So it's obvious no
07:16The less said about it, the better
07:19The autopsy results appear to be a foregone conclusion.
07:23Sea water up to the intestines
07:25Sand in the lungs
07:28We only know about Montesi that she died.
07:32And she died of drowning
07:34The only things that are salty outside
07:36And that his lungs were full of water
07:38Point
07:39Vilma Montesi drowned
07:41Drowned by someone?
07:44Difficult
07:45Drowned voluntarily?
07:46Possible but not probable
07:48Misfortune?
07:50Very, very likely
08:01Investigators are working hard to piece together the picture.
08:04First of all we need to reconstruct the girl's last hours
08:08It is a certainty that the mother and sister Vanda
08:11They are the last relatives to see her alive
08:13At 4.30pm on Thursday 9 April
08:16They say goodbye to Vilma and go to the cinema
08:19Vilma says she prefers to stay at home
08:21Instead, half an hour later at 5pm he comes out
08:24Where you go?
08:25Witnesses are needed and there are witnesses.
08:28The first is an employee of the Ministry of Defense
08:31He recognized in the newspaper photos
08:33The girl he traveled to Ostia with
08:36On the train that left Rome for Ostiense
08:38At 5.30pm
08:40After two days, two or three days
08:42That is the 13th
08:43He showed up at the Montesi house
08:46This Passarelli
08:48And it was said
08:48But look, I, says Passarelli
08:51I saw his daughter
08:53But she, let's say
08:54As you recognize it from the story
08:56From the features that are given back
08:59In Ostia, around 6pm
09:02Even a nanny would have seen Vilma
09:04While walking on the beach
09:06And always in the Ostia area
09:08At Castelfusano station
09:10There's even a newsagent who recognizes Montesi
09:12That girl, says the newsagent
09:15He bought a postcard
09:16He wrote it and entrusted it to her
09:19Why set it for power
09:20At the address of the policeman boyfriend
09:24What was written on the postcard?
09:26It is not known
09:27Angelo Giuliani claims he never received it
09:30To the investigators
09:32That detail seems irrelevant
09:34Why investigators discovered the reason
09:37Which would have brought Vilma Montesi to the sea
09:40On a cold April day
09:42A very special reason
09:50A girl dies on the seashore in Torvajanica
09:53Why was Vilma Montesi there?
09:55Why was she half naked?
09:57Suicide?
09:58Homocide?
09:59And the victim's sister
10:00Give investigators a lead
10:02A very harmless track
10:05Sister Banda reveals to investigators
10:08That both suffered from heel eczema
10:10According to poor Vilma
10:12A foot bath in the sea was the most suitable cure for that redness.
10:18A coroner is called
10:21To prove that the girl had been reluctant to take a foot bath
10:26They make him examine his sister Vanda's feet
10:30Since there is a law of inheritance
10:36And so of osmosis between two sisters
10:41If Vanda's feet are red
10:44Vilma Montesi's feet must have been reddened.
10:49Now everything comes back
10:51Or so it seems to investigators.
10:57The girl left the house
10:59And he took the train to Ostia to have a foot bath
11:01She took off her shoes and socks
11:03She entered the sea
11:04She felt ill and drowned
11:08It remains to be understood how the body of a denied host was made
11:11To be thrown back onto the beach of Torbaianica
11:1420 kilometers away and against the current
11:21It remains to be understood why the girl
11:23Had she decided to take off her stocking holder too
11:26To do the foot bath
11:29The absence of the stocking holder
11:31And all the other clothes
11:33It immediately made me think
11:36To something different
11:38Something that had to do with
11:39A wild night
11:41With a party
11:42With a clandestine meeting
11:45A Buddhist woman
11:46How does he do it?
11:48To remove the stocking holder
11:49The skirt must be lifted completely
11:51And this contrasts
11:52With a figure
11:55As it has been represented
11:57Of a good girl
11:58Of a buddhic girl
11:59In fact this is the real mystery
12:01By Vilma Montesi
12:03That she was a girl
12:05Which is found
12:07Dressed
12:08But he didn't have the needle
12:10Which by the way was very difficult to get off
12:13It's true that she did get help.
12:16From the sister
12:17To take it off
12:18Who took it away from him?
12:26In the autumn of 1953
12:28Five months after the disappearance of Vilma Montesi
12:31The case is closed
12:33Archived
12:34The beautiful Roman woman is dead
12:36For an imprudent footbath
12:38Done unconsciously
12:40In a critical period
12:42The premenstrual one
12:48Naturally
12:49These reconstructions
12:51They were absolutely illogical
12:54Absolutely
12:55Without any connection
12:57With a documentary reality
12:59AND
13:00They only served
13:03To give reason
13:05Of this strange journey
13:07That she would have accomplished alone
13:09Because the ticket collector sees it
13:10Because he sees it
13:11Ridiculous
13:12Etc
13:14From Rome to Ostia
13:16The footbath period
13:17Entered into history
13:19Of Italian journalism
13:22But also in history
13:24Of the Italian police
13:25When in our environment
13:26It is intended to represent
13:28An abnormal fact
13:29An argument
13:31Totally out of whack
13:32It is said yes
13:32Like the foot bath
13:34By Vilma Montesi
13:36But Vilma's family
13:38They have no doubt
13:39That's exactly how it went
13:41This family
13:43He behaves a little
13:45Strangely
13:46And so
13:49Strangely
13:50Welcomes immediately
13:52The first
13:53Version
13:54We could say
13:55Grotesque
13:56Of the foot bath
13:59And it seems
14:00Don't want to
14:01Minimally
14:02Enter
14:03In
14:04A story
14:06Which becomes
14:07Of a neighbor
14:07Over there
14:08And in fact
14:11On the tombstone
14:12They make an impact
14:12An epitaph
14:13Which reminds
14:14A flyer
14:14Advertising
14:15Of the tourist coast
14:16Lazio
14:18Creature
14:19Of rare beauty
14:20The sea of Ostia
14:22Pull P
14:22To bring you back
14:23On the beach
14:24From Torbaianica
14:29Thanks to the theory
14:30Of the foot bath
14:32Even
14:33It could have been done
14:33The funeral
14:34Why else?
14:35And at the time
14:36The church
14:37It was particularly
14:38Severe
14:38The suicide
14:39He wouldn't have had
14:41Right
14:42To the execution
14:42In church
14:45Buried
14:45Bilma
14:46The Montesi family
14:47It closes
14:47In a painful silence
14:49Putting out the door
14:50Even the boyfriend
14:51Of the girl
14:52Angel Julian
14:55They were created
14:56Some theories
14:57Theories
14:58What they wanted
14:59Or a fake engagement
15:01To hide
15:02A true story
15:04Of love
15:05Let's hope
15:05With some young people
15:07Powerful scion
15:08Or
15:09Alternative theory
15:11The boyfriend
15:12He had been sent away
15:13From the police
15:14From the police station
15:15Own
15:16To leave
15:16Free field
15:17To some other
15:18Pretender
15:19Much more
15:20Connected with power
15:23With the investigation closed
15:25The Death of Vilma Montesi
15:27It seems destined
15:28To go out
15:28From the chronicles
15:30In these months
15:32They are quite different
15:32The topics
15:33That make the news
15:34Stalin is dead
15:36The man
15:36Who drove
15:37The Soviet Union
15:38From the Bolshevik Revolution
15:40To the Second World War
15:41All of the USSR
15:42It is induced
15:45On the other side
15:46Of Europe
15:46Instead, we are witnessing
15:47At birth
15:48From another kingdom
15:49She is crowned
15:50The new sovereign
15:51From England
15:51She's very young
15:53He succeeds his father Giorgio
15:54And it takes its name
15:55By Elizabeth II
15:58In Italy
15:59It's the year
16:00Of the so-called
16:00Fraud Law
16:01Highly criticized
16:02From the left
16:03Which assigns
16:0365%
16:04Of the seats
16:05To the coalition
16:06What does he get?
16:0650%
16:07Of vote
16:08The debate
16:09In the newspapers
16:10It's incandescent
16:39In Italy
16:40Of each one
16:41That was what
16:42American style
16:43He was called
16:44The scoop
16:46And that's how it is
16:47That despite
16:47The official closing
16:48Of the case
16:49Even death
16:50By Vilma Montesi
16:51Keep on engaging
16:52The pages
16:52Some newspapers
16:53It's gone
16:54The hunt
16:55To the scoop
16:55There it clicked
16:57Probably
16:58Even one
16:59Curiosity
17:01New
17:01Of the press
17:02And they began
17:03Next to
17:04To falls
17:06Of taste
17:06Of some
17:09In love
17:10About the scoop
17:11For the scoop
17:11We could say
17:12Independently
17:14From truthfulness
17:15Some things
17:15Who wrote
17:18He grew up
17:19In that
17:19About the matter
17:20Montesi
17:21A
17:22Class of journalists
17:24Of reporters
17:25Truly
17:27Arrembanti
17:28They don't accept
17:30The showgirls
17:31That come
17:31From the police station
17:32And there is a disagreement
17:33Very strong
17:34And very violent.
17:35Between
17:36Apparatus
17:37Of the State
17:38AND
17:39Journalists
17:46The thesis
17:47Of the foot bath
17:48Of death
17:48Accidental
17:49By Vilma Montesi
17:49It's not convincing
17:50Nobody
17:50The newspaper
17:51They attack each other
17:52Hard
17:52The police commissioner
17:53From Rome
17:53Saverio Polito
17:54To have
17:54Case closed
17:55So fast
17:56While in the
17:56Little groups
17:57Of the employees
17:57At work
17:58The gossip
17:58Flywheel
17:59And I am
18:00Rumors
18:01Heavy
18:06Everyone
18:07The chroniclers
18:10etc., who this and who that, are somehow contacted and everyone is given
18:15The Montesi case was suggested, pay attention to it because the son of a minister killed her.
18:22On May 4th, Roma, a monarchist newspaper published in Naples, ran an allusive headline
18:28and malicious. Why are the police silent about Vilma Montesi's death?
18:32He basically says the police are covering up the case, there is something worse behind this,
18:40there are some children of the Christian Democratic power that they want to save.
18:46The author of the article is Riccardo Giannini who the following day replies in the column of a periodical
18:51Far-right satirist, Merlo Giallo. This time Giannini expresses his malice in a cartoon.
18:59You can see a carrier pigeon resting on the window of the police station, in its beak it carries
19:06a garter belt. The caption is explicit and essentially states what Roma reported yesterday.
19:14It's not that mysterious, there aren't many people who can be suspected.
19:21The cartoon's message is clear and sets off a bombshell. Someone from Atilio's family
19:27Piccioni, vice president of the council, is implicated in the Montesi affair. Twenty days pass and another
19:34newspaper, the communist Via Nuove, brings into play by name and surname the young musician Piero
19:39Piccioni, son of the minister.
19:45The Montesi case is not only a closed name, but it's still all to be written. At this point, someone is needed.
19:55that completes the work and tells in more detail what is being rumored. On October 6, 1953,
20:02Current affairs, a small Roman lottocalco directed by Silvano Muto to tear away the last veil of
20:07Discretion. Silvano Muto is a very young man, 23 years old, I believe. A brilliant young lawyer, the son of
20:16of the Roman bourgeoisie and yet with a passion for journalism and in a rather mysterious manner
20:22instead of starting this career from the bottom, that is, by writing articles, he starts it from the top
20:29founding a weekly magazine, called Attualità, of which he is the director and sole owner
20:37among the main editors.
20:40We were a group of young people, I think there were about ten of us, who thought of doing
20:46this newspaper, among other things personally quoting each of us to try to keep it going
20:55every month this newspaper.
20:57Through the pen of Silvano Muto, Attualità draws a shocking scenario around the
21:03disappearance of Montesi.
21:05Far from a foot bath, Vilma took part in a little party at the Capocotta estate
21:11and during this little party, where people linked to the under-government of the time participated
21:21and where, according to Muto, drugs were widely used, the girl, perhaps at her first
21:26experience, had a collapse. The participants, terrified by the scandal, would have believed
21:34that she was dead and so they dumped her on the nearest beach.
21:38He couldn't understand how that poor girl had gone.
21:45in Torvaglianica with the road, the wind, a day back to wash your feet and do
21:57various abruzzi. He didn't read anywhere.
22:03Muto does not reveal his identity, but he makes it clear that they were two important personalities who
22:08abandon the young woman's body on the nearby beach. Perhaps two frightened people
22:13from an illness that could have happened to Montesi during the party. Who are they then?
22:18the two mysterious faces that Muto refers to, calling them Mr. X and Mr. Y? One, too
22:27Easy, it's Piero Piccioni. The young son of the Vice President of the Council, a musician.
22:37who is dedicated to jazz, an extroverted figure, certainly not interested in politics as much as
22:47to art and the dolce vita that was just beginning to take its first steps. According to the canons of the time
22:54he is a man who frequents lost women and dodgy clubs.
22:58But Piccioni is not alone. With him, according to Muto's reconstruction, is the owner of the
23:04villa di Capocotta, where people celebrated and perhaps died.
23:12His name is Ugo Montagna.
23:16It was aimed at a very specific function. It was the function of those people who connected
23:24the old power, the old wealth of the old ruling class to the new class
23:31leader who was forming. He was certainly one of those people who, if they had existed
23:37then, the popular, tabloid newspapers that exist today would have filled the pages
23:44of these newspapers.
23:45Even today in the mountains there are, of course, these people who are businessmen, adventurers.
23:52by nature, those on the border between legality and illegality, who have, how can I say, the friend
24:00politician, who have a banker friend, who work like that. This was a guy who in Rome
24:08he was a seducer of women, a top bird, femme, as they said then, who had many relationships
24:16politics and many business relationships. He himself was a charlatan, he had come
24:22come on, I think from Sicily with patches on their trousers.
24:26With one characteristic, mountain wants to make money and wants to make it quickly, so identify
24:33a fairly safe method. He's a great party organizer, he introduces members of parliament
24:41unknown or to the children of powerful ministers the good life, hunting, dinners, good wines
24:51and all of this, possibly with a finger, of girls.
24:57Drugs, sex, politics, and death. Newspapers publish news and rumors nonstop.
25:07All the newspapers invested energy, which means journalists, reporters, to try
25:13to discover everything that could be discovered, also because what was coming out?
25:20outside a building, the famous building with a capital P, the political world, a little different
25:29from what was known or considered up to that point.
25:33According to the Rome prosecutor's office, which is officially closing the case in those very days
25:38Montesi, there's enough evidence to open proceedings for spreading false news.
25:43and tendentious, at the expense of the enterprising Silvano Muto.
25:58On January 28, 1954, Silvano Muto appeared at the trial assisted by the lawyers Giuseppe
26:06Bucciante and Giuseppe Sogiu and finds an immense crowd.
26:14This was the first political trial, because it is a political trial, and therefore
26:20people were passionate about it.
26:24It was a spectacle, I repeat, there were people who went to the assize court in those years.
26:31there, just to enjoy the show.
26:39Capocotta is a name that has had widespread and sad notoriety in recent months, and
26:44as well as Torvajanica, the beach where Vilma Montesi's body was found.
26:48Crime or misfortune?
26:49Reality or fantasy?
26:52In front of the Palace of Justice, journalist Silvano Muto seems pleased with the attention
26:56of photographers and above all he is very self-confident.
27:01The audience is impatient; the room won't be able to hold it all.
27:06The Roman palace in Piazza Cavour is besieged by the curious and so much anticipation does not
27:12will be disappointed.
27:14Muto not only confirms the names of pigeons and mountains, but above all calls into question a
27:19witness who appears to know a lot about the matter.
27:23Anna Maria Moneta Caglio.
27:25Muto called me to testify in his favor, after he said he had called me
27:31because even if I hadn't collaborated on his article I knew the things they could do
27:36and be useful to him.
27:38Anna Maria is 24 years old and the daughter of one of the most important notaries in Milan, granddaughter of a
27:44founder of the People's Party, great-grandson of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
27:49She arrived in Rome a couple of years ago and says she wants to try her hand at cinema, but
27:54in reality it seems driven above all by a great desire for adventure.
28:01Why might Anna Maria have something interesting to say about the Montesi affair?
28:06Because you, the Marquis Montagna, know him well.
28:10He was fantastic, he was fantastic, ignorant, ignorant, but fantastic, gallantly so.
28:19It was phenomenal, it was fantastic, but bad, it was bad.
28:26She and Montagna loved each other for months.
28:31When the mute trial begins, Anna Maria Moneta Caglio has definitively cut off
28:37the relationship with the Marquis. Suddenly that man who moves with ease in the
28:43the world of Roman politics, began to scare her.
28:48Anna Maria, putting together fragments of sentences and meetings, became convinced that the Marquis
28:53and his friend Piero Piccioni really have something to do with the death of that Montesi.
28:59And that's why Anna Maria Moneta Caglio contacted the silent journalist after reading
29:05his article.
29:06I called Muto to ask if he was telling the truth and he says, we always say
29:14the truth.
29:16I mean, but then there was also someone called U.M.
29:21and he understood that I knew why U.M. and he started to say, we had to see each other,
29:29we had to see each other, I needed to know, I couldn't stand not knowing, I couldn't.
29:37Anna Maria Moneta Caglio is afraid that someone wants to kill her and that someone, according to her,
29:43It is U.M. Ugo Montagna.
29:46So I called, I called Muto, he says we have to see each other, we have to see each other.
29:52And then I saw it, I saw it and he kept saying like this, it's true, it's true, it's
29:58True.
29:59And that's why the next day I went to Via degli Astaglia for Compadre Dall'Oglio.
30:06In need of advice and protection, Caglio turns to an uncle who is a priest.
30:11who in turn directed her to an important Jesuit father based in Rome, Alessandro Dall'Olio.
30:17Father Dall'Olio collects a detailed memoir of Caglio, which underlies its credibility
30:22and then decides to present the memorial to the then Minister of the Interior, the Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani.
30:30Father Dall'Olio, I believe you informed another superior called Father Rotondi.
30:40Father Rotondi goes to Fanfani, who was then Minister of the Interior, and says look, there is a person
30:47who says these very serious things, serious because it wasn't so much the Montesi fact, the death of Montesi,
30:55but it was, let's say, a precursor to the explosion of scandal, that is, the demonstration of scandal,
31:04of corruption which saw parts of the State, prelates, high prelates, speculators, living in a context
31:14let's say rather questionable.
31:17But this is enough to explain the interest of the Minister of the Interior Fanfani in the death
31:22of Montesi, for the mountain festivals, for the liberations of the Caglio coin?
31:32A girl died in mysterious circumstances, the son of minister Piccioni suspected of
31:37homocide.
31:38The Montesi affair is now a state affair.
31:41But why is Minister Fanfani so interested in the gossip about Piccioni's son?
31:571954 was not an easy year for Christian Democracy.
32:02Leader Alcide De Gasperi has died and a race for his succession has broken out within the party.
32:08The two candidates with the best credentials are:
32:12Amintore Fanfani is him, Attilio Piccioni, the father of the musician Piero.
32:22Vilma Montesi and her death are an increasingly small dot in a matter that is now
32:28it's a state problem.
32:30But let's go back to the day when Fanfani himself received the memorial from the hands of Father Dall'Olio
32:35Caglio coin. Clearly, this is hot stuff. Further investigation is needed.
32:41Fanfani knows of the close friendship that binds Montagna to the police chief, Tommaso
32:46Peacock.
32:48One of the most astonishing things that Caglio tells Fanfani is that the police chief
32:55of the time he had a very cordial relationship with Montagna.
33:00This is why Fanfani decides to entrust a counter-investigation to a Carabinieri officer
33:05of his trust.
33:08Umberto Pompei, the colonel of the force in charge of drawing up the report, carries out the task
33:13quickly and precisely.
33:19After a while Pompeii went to Fanfani and said but look, people are involved here, let's say
33:27important of note and Fanfani said she should continue with her investigation without looking
33:34in no one's bracket. People of good faith will stay afloat, people in good faith
33:40they will sink.
33:42The document should remain confidential and instead, who knows how, from the minister's desk
33:48arrives on the tables of the silent trial, on the pages of newspapers and posted as posters on the
33:53walls of Rome. At that point, even the Communist Party decided to take control of the case.
34:02and in the course of one night a wall poster is prepared which for thousands of copies
34:09it will be posted on the walls and is the synthesis, in short, to a large extent, of the Pompeii report.
34:16The first result of the Pompei report is to make the continuation useless
34:21of the silent process. The second result of the Pompeii report is the logical consequence.
34:27The Montesi case needs to be reopened.
34:44This time, things are serious. The investigation has been entrusted to a watchdog from the Roman prosecutor's office,
34:49Raffaello Seppe, a 150kg magistrate and man of action.
34:55Suddenly for the first time we have on the scene the figure of the non-silent magistrate
35:04guardian of the law, but of the magistrate protagonist.
35:07It moves exactly as our magistrates move today, so it moves a little bit differently.
35:12unscrupulous, he moves with great attention to the political interests that surround him
35:23and he moves with a somewhat popular aura of someone who does justice, a sort of Robin Hood
35:35who certainly had popular favor and who was totally ignorant of the law and therefore
35:40he did what he wanted.
35:45Seppe literally hammers home the conclusions of the previous investigation.
36:03The story of the foot bath is not credible.
36:06First, the time frame in which the girl reached Ostia does not add up.
36:13Second, all the witnesses who swear to have seen Montesi in Ostia are unreliable.
36:21Third, from the new autopsy ordered by Seppe, it emerges that in Montesi's lungs
36:27There is a type of sand that is found only in Torvajanica and not in Ostia.
36:32So Montesi died in Torvajanica, a few steps from the Capocotta estate.
36:38Seppe, in short, is convinced that Montesi is not the saint her family paints her as.
36:45During a meeting in Capocotta she had fun sniffing cocaine with the young Piccioni
36:49and in the mountains and so she felt sick.
36:53For this reason, due to Scandari's fear, his body was abandoned on the beach of Torvajanica
36:59where he later found death by drowning in two feet of water.
37:07While waiting for the trial to begin, as a precautionary measure,
37:11Seppe snaps the handcuffs on Piero Piccioni's wrists,
37:14material author of the manslaughter and of the Marquis Montagna, guilty of aiding and abetting.
37:20A subpoena for aiding and abetting also arrives on the desk of the now former police commissioner Polito.
37:26It is September 22, 1954.
37:29Three days earlier, another important, if not fundamental, episode had occurred.
37:35In the midst of the Trieste crisis, plagued by rumours and controversies over the Montesi affair,
37:40Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigns from his position
37:44and practically disappears from Italian political life.
37:48Attilio Piccioni has disappeared, literally disappeared in this very affair.
37:53Piccioni was, in Christian democracy, the most culturally authoritative figure
37:59for its clear precedents during fascism.
38:03Piccioni naturally resigned when this son was accused
38:09and he never recovered.
38:13I say a lot that I don't want to beat around the bush.
38:17I am convinced that there is no desire for fanfare.
38:23If I had been convinced otherwise, I would have stopped greeting him.
38:28But do you really... this development fell for us,
38:36not understanding among other things that it is possible to set the Carabinieri against the police and vice versa,
38:40It's always a very dangerous sport.
38:48Now in Parliament all anyone talks about is the Montesi affair and the Capogotte scandal.
38:53Vilma is of little or no interest.
38:57What matters is to demonstrate the hidden vices of the ruling class
39:03and even hidden behind a veil of moralism, of Catholic moralism.
39:09So socialists, communists, and the left of the time went on the attack.
39:16The communists certainly played a significant role in this reading operation.
39:21one of the protagonists was Giancarlo Paglietta.
39:25The most popular insult from the left-wing benches is the cry of Capo Cottari.
39:30We entered the Chamber and Paglietta and the others shouted Capo Cottari.
39:38What did all this amount to?
39:40In conclusion, it is a different political turning point than what it would have been.
39:47From the title of an article in L'Unità of those days a term was born
39:51which will make fortune, the moral question.
39:53But for the communists the political opportunity to demonstrate
39:57one's moral supremacy over one's opponent is short-lived.
40:01November 16, 1954, a photo from the newspaper Momento Sera
40:06immortalizes the communist exponent Giuseppe Soggio and his wife
40:10as they exit number 15 Via Corridoni in Rome.
40:14This is not a normal address.
40:16The most famous casino in the city has been operating there for years.
40:19It was a real dirty trick that was done against this professional.
40:26to make him pay, I repeat, for the battle he fought in the Montesi trial.
40:32Giuseppe Soggio is not only the communist president of the province of Rome
40:36but he is also the lawyer of the journalist Silvano Muto in the Montesi case.
40:40Lawyer Soggio was associated with my father's defense due to his political affiliation.
40:45because since we were going against the power
40:48then it was necessary for the defense to have a lawyer who was not on the side of power
40:55and so Soggio was then president of the left-wing province
41:01and therefore the choice fell on Soggio for its political connotation.
41:10Gossip is infamous.
41:12It is said that Soggio goes to the brothel to watch his wife in the company of minors.
41:18Moral of the story, in the thousand declinations of the Montesi case
41:21A dose of poison is not denied to anyone.
41:24From right to left.
41:27This scandal can be said to be that he who wounds by capocotta perishes by capocotta
41:36but it's not like you can say it, the Roman observer writes
41:39Don't dwell too much on the subject of sexual scandal because everyone has a skeleton in the closet
41:47and a conviction is born within Italian politics
41:53which is also a convention.
41:55From now on, the private life of politicians
42:00it cannot and must not be a battleground
42:04and it is a convention that is still in force today.
42:08Italy sees itself reflected in the Montesi case and no longer recognizes itself.
42:12Neither the girls from good families who participate in the parties are recognized
42:16in the politicians who traffic under the counter
42:18and take out their opponents using every means at their disposal.
42:27A happy winter for Venetian hoteliers
42:29entirely occupied by journalists, lawyers, witnesses of the Montesi trial
42:33and here are some of the main protagonists of the sensational case
42:36Giampiero Piccioni, his face frowning, will say
42:39I never knew her.
42:41The Marquis Montagna, the most disconcerting character
42:44cross the Rialto market
42:46elegant as usual he appears sure of himself
42:48almost smiling.
42:50The former police commissioner Polito, his voice broken by emotion, will affirm
42:54I was subjected to threats.
42:58Pasquale Simola, one of the many who testified falsely
43:01he is currently detained for another crime.
43:04Attorney Cassinelli, civil plaintiff for the Montesi family.
43:08Public Prosecutor Palminteri
43:10he will need all his experience
43:11to proceed between the shallows and the quicksand
43:13of the tangled affair.
43:14It begins with what should be the last act of a case
43:18which was born between the lines of crime news
43:20it grew out of all proportion
43:21through political interests, thirst for notoriety
43:24personal vendettas, lies and vanity.
43:27Vilma Montesi was a girl like many others
43:29not even excessively beautiful.
43:31Outside his modest circle
43:33no one would ever care about her.
43:35Suddenly fate had fun cheating the cards
43:37and threw his poor lifeless body
43:40at the center of a story
43:41which was meant to mobilize the morbid curiosity of the entire world.
43:43But despite the current process
43:45For whom, how and why Vilma Montesi died
43:48perhaps no one will ever come to tell us.
44:00When January 21, 1957
44:03in Venice
44:04the trial of Piero Piccioni opens
44:06for the murder of Vilma Montesi
44:08the climate has changed.
44:12Even politically speaking
44:14we're already in another season.
44:16Politics, in the Montesi case, no longer exists.
44:20Winners and losers are a thing of the past.
44:22like poor Vilma Montesi.
44:25There is a weariness, a reflux of public opinion
44:29and newspapers
44:29but there is also
44:32a saturation of politics.
44:35Whoever was supposed to win, won.
44:37who was supposed to lose, lost
44:39there is no intention of going further.
44:42Sepe has instructed the process
44:44knowing full well that Piccioni's burden
44:46there is not a single proof.
44:48This story of vice
44:50on a specifically technical level
44:51It must be said that it is one of the worst examples
44:54of the functioning of justice in Italy
44:56why it was brought forward
44:58on the basis of simple circumstantial evidence
45:03without a shred of evidence.
45:07The judge's entire accusatory castle
45:09It is based on a theorem
45:10in line with the morality of the time.
45:18Modern existentialist philosophy.
45:28As in other places
45:29dry pasta
45:30dance music is served here.
45:34Is there anyone who can believe?
45:36that all this is very intelligent?
45:38Piero Piccioni plays jazz.
45:40He hangs out with existentialists
45:42and therefore he is a lost soul.
45:44And what did he do?
45:45He played and the fact that one was a musician was already there
45:49he was already viewed with suspicion
45:52but he didn't even play the melodies
45:54of Neapolitan song
45:56thought jazz
45:57and it was also, let us remember,
46:02surrounded by beautiful women.
46:05Piero Piccioni is the perfect culprit
46:07but the perfect culprit
46:09he has an alibi.
46:16In those days Adam Alfie was there
46:18and when he returned to Rome
46:20he got sick.
46:21Sepe doesn't believe it
46:23challenges the authenticity of medical prescriptions
46:25then faced with yet another twist
46:28he gives up.
46:29I'm excited
46:30I'm serious
46:31I've always come up here on the screen
46:34in the guise of a fictional character
46:36who cries and laughs as others want
46:38and so it's natural
46:40that finding myself before you
46:41for the first time
46:42just like Alida Valli
46:43I feel a certain thrill.
46:45In the courtroom of Venice
46:47is called to testify
46:48Mrs. Alida Valli
46:50and one of the most important actresses in the world
46:52the Valleys
46:53which is linked to Piccioni Junior
46:55validates the boyfriend's alibi.
46:58It's the plot twist
47:00what was needed after such an intriguing story
47:02and it's the final twist.
47:05Piero Piccioni acquitted
47:07for not having committed the act
47:08Montagne and Polito acquitted
47:11for not having favored the alleged culprit
47:14Muto and the Caglio coin
47:16a few years later
47:17they will be convicted of slander.
47:23There is only one doubt left to clarify.
47:25and of some importance
47:27Vilma Montesi
47:29so how did she die?
47:32Nobody knows
47:33to few now
47:35after everything that happened
47:36it really matters.
47:43Italy has changed
47:45we must look forward.
47:48In July 1958
47:50for the first time
47:51Christian Democrats and Social Democrats
47:53they launch a center-left government.
47:56The Prime Minister
47:58is called
47:58Amintore Fanfani.
48:02And the other protagonists of this story?
48:06Piero Piccioni
48:07who will never want to talk about this case again
48:12he will return to being a musician
48:15very successful musician
48:17because then he signs
48:18throughout his career
48:20hundreds of sound clouds
48:22and becomes one of the main friends
48:24of the actors
48:25and Italian directors.
48:27Mountain
48:28it's burned now.
48:32Caglio itself
48:33it disappears pretty quickly
48:36from the scene
48:36he will become a notary
48:38and will make his own life
48:42Calm.
48:44The Montesi family
48:45it was perhaps
48:46the most blameless victim
48:49and the one who paid the highest price
48:51this case.
48:52The climax
48:52of the Montesi misfortune
48:55it was the second trial
48:58which was held
48:59against Vilma's uncle
49:01Uncle Giuseppe
49:03Why
49:03the judiciary
49:05looking for a culprit
49:07at a certain point
49:08he took the track
49:09of a crime
49:10in the family
49:11and family members
49:12they slaughtered each other
49:14why this shadow
49:15among themselves
49:16it was actually
49:17intolerable
49:18here too
49:18it ended in nothing
49:19there was no proof
49:21And
49:22a thousand apologies to everyone
49:23and off we go.
49:25Mute
49:26for a few years
49:28continued to be
49:29a journalist
49:30on the crest of the wave
49:31Certain
49:32he hoped
49:33a career
49:34different journalism
49:36that instead
49:36was denied to him.
49:38I tried
49:40I have to say that
49:41I went
49:41frankly bad
49:43After
49:46I'm 56 years old
49:48what do I do
49:48the journalist
49:49Yes
49:50I think 56
49:51well after 56
49:53just the other day
49:54I came to pick me up
49:55to contest
49:57a contravention
49:58Of
50:0030,000 lire
50:01something like that
50:03relative
50:04to the Montesi case
50:05the Montesi case
50:07go
50:07ascribed
50:08in the list
50:09some things
50:10worst
50:11that we saw
50:11in history
50:12post-belie
50:13of this country
50:21of this country
50:53Thank you all.
51:17Thank you all.
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