Rignano Flaminio, husband teacher: “TV special? History clarified, no need to talk about it”

“The matter has been clarified: the fact does not exist and all the courts have agreed with us. We did not want to participate because it is useless, we do not understand why”. This was stated to Adnkronos Luciano Giugno, husband of Marisa Pucci, one of the teachers who ended up in 2007 in the investigation into alleged abuse of children in the ‘Olga Rovere’ nursery school in Rignano Flaminio and then acquitted, in view of the special in two evenings’ Lo Rignano Flaminio scandal ‘which will air today and tomorrow on Crime + Investigation on Sky. “These things should not be discussed on TV, but in parliament”, underlines June according to which also in the light of other cases, such as the ‘Veleno’ or Bibbiano investigation, “we should talk about the Noto Charter, it should be mandatory for children’s hearings “. “Ours is an absurd story, which can happen to everyone, the school of Rignano was also awarded as a model. There is no shadow, no dark side: the sentences are very clear – underlines the teacher’s husband – They put cameras , there were searches, there was no half trial. The Review immediately freed the teachers, then all the courts agreed with us. We have been compensated “. “There was not the slightest bit of common sense. There were 400 witnesses, everything was taken into consideration and there are no dark sides”, continues June pointing the finger at the way in which the investigations were carried out: ” It would have been enough to look at the timetables: my wife was short of time, the entrance of the children was between 8 and 9, at 10 they brought recreation, then my wife took the children to the garden and at 12.30 the bus was already arriving to pick them up. How could they have had the time to leave the class uncovered, get out of school and take them to the countryside? “He asks, referring to the fact that, according to the prosecution, the alleged abuses took place during school hours and outside the institution. “My wife is now retired”, he tells Adnkronos June, adding however that at the end of the legal matter and despite the acquittal, the teachers “were thrown into office work. After working for 25 years”. “What we went through was a trauma for our daughters, their adolescence was destroyed. Now we are recovering, but this thing upsets us: it is not the Rignano scandal, it is the scandal of justice”, he concludes referring to how The investigations were conducted. The director No desire to open a case but only the need to photograph with detachment and without pre-established theses what happened in Rignano Flaminio on 9 July 15 years ago. Simone Manetti, director of the special ‘The Rignano Flaminio scandal’ explains to Adnkronos that the desire to return to a story “now closed from a judicial point of view, stems from the desire to tell a story that, with all its cracks and his sufferings, had to be told to keep alive the memory of what had happened in that village on the outskirts of Rome “. The narrative structure, explains the director, “is that of the documentary with an ‘atheistic’ approach that is based on the three unquestionable degrees of judgment that acquitted the accused ‘because the fact does not exist’. ‘there is no desire to open a case or to make an investigation, but only a photograph of what happened “.” The tragic thing about this story – observes Manetti – is that there is suffering in each of its protagonists. the defendants, who have lived through hell, both the parents and the children themselves, will not see deleted from the sentences, unfortunately “. In reconstructing the story, Manetti and the author Stefania Colletta moved “by studying the trial papers and interviewing the people who at the time followed the events in person, trying to combine the judicial story with the personal one. We interviewed all the protagonists of corollary of the story, the defendants did not want to participate and only one mother spoke of the parents involved. As a matter of ethics and respect, we informed all the parties involved in the story and called all their lawyers “. The special unfolds in two episodes of 50 minutes each and start “from 9 July 2006 (when the parent of a child showed up at the Carabinieri barracks in Bracciano denouncing sexual games in the Olga Rovere nursery school in Rignano, ed), a day usually remembered for the final ‘Italy-France of the World Cup, to arrive in the story at the sentence of first instance, citing the other two degrees of judgment that have or confirmed. We tried to tell things in the same way they were told by the media at the time, trying to put the viewer in the same condition as those who followed the story live at the time. There are no actors – explains Manetti – but only the real protagonists of the story interviewed, alongside archive material “. As for the title, ‘The scandal of Rignano Flaminio’,” we used the word ‘scandal’ – concludes the director – reference to the headlines of the newspapers of the time which, before everything passed into the hands of justice, shouted scandal transforming Rignano Flaminio into the land of monsters “.