The attacks after the online review
After all, we are talking about a pizzeria, opened in December 2014, of small size and low costs, with a loyal local clientele and an apparently prudent administrative management of which Giovanna was very proud, having also withstood the years of the pandemic, here devastating scope. The probable absence of suicide notes as well as announcements and “explanations” of suicide with other instruments, even in the unfathomable labyrinths of the human mind, could suggest an unpremeditated gesture. And so perhaps a consequence, if not definitively “triggered” by the attacks suffered in recent days on social media after the controversy over the review signed by a customer who railed against gays and disabled people near the table, with the immediate and firm, wise and virtuous response of the woman who had received the applause of the Minister for Disability, Alessandra Locatelli.
The controversies
Having become, again on social media, the recipient of comments to the point of becoming a national heroine, Giovanna, in the rapid turn of feelings on the Internet, however, soon became the target of insults due to the reconstructions, including those for example by the journalist Selvaggia Lucarelli and her partner Lorenzo Biagiarelli, chef and blogger: reconstructions that framed that review as a possible artful fabrication. A fake. Made by you, Giovanna. To speculate on pain, to gain publicity and new customers. Thrusts that had offended and pained her.
Pedretti had been interviewed by the police
Giovanna Pedretti had also been interviewed by the police regarding the review of the alleged customer. The fifty-nine year old was simply called as a person informed of the facts.
The examination of PC and telephone
The examination of the woman’s cell phone and PC takes on a clear investigative value to verify the hours that preceded the voluntary disappearance in the countryside: other offensives could have been recorded on those devices, which due to their intensity, or because they were framed by Giovanna as no longer sustainable, they may even have accelerated the extreme decision. Giovanna’s family past, with her poor brother who had established an identical destiny, certainly does not escape the investigators of the Lodi Prosecutor’s Office directed by a magistrate of enormous experience and sensitivity such as Maurizio Romanelli, in the complicated analysis of the case in its entirety.
Lucarelli’s reply
Selvaggia Lucarelli, as usual, does not shy away from the comparison: «We are talking about a pillory, but in fact there had never even been this pillory that we are talking about on social media. I therefore fear that too little is known about his background. As always”. Lucarelli again highlights three elements: the belief that we were faced with “clearly a fake from the first glance”; the fact that the truth would never have been discovered if someone, like her and her partner, had not done debunking, or an investigation against fake news (“I’m sorry that you think that the search for the truth could have these consequences”, she wrote on their Biagiarelli profiles); and then, or rather at the beginning of it all, the scheme according to which «a person invents a story using disabled people and gays to have that popularity on social media that everyone now wants».
The attack of the League
A note from the League: «The lesson that comes from the left and its journalists: you can attack a boy mutilated by a shark, a pizza maker suspected of a fake review, you can use a dead father and a painful family history to hurt the prime minister , but homage is paid to the Hollywood star who escapes Matteo Salvini’s trial. On the left they will never change: ruthless with the weak and with adversaries, servile with friends. Shame”.
The affection of the country
From the common narrative of Sant’Angelo Lodigiano emerges the figure of a Giovanna Pedretti who was perfectly at ease in the dimension of the village, the family and the restaurant, the restaurant and the family, but no one knew of any internal torments of the woman that perhaps would have overtaken her lost and fragile in the face of the sudden spotlight. The husband’s words and the prosecutor’s checks will be fundamental.