What happened to the victims and perpetrators of the events told by Netflix’s Catholic School?

A movie came out recently on Netflix that shocked viewers, it is “The Catholic School”, a tape portraying the Circeo massacre, a disturbing event that occurred in Italy in 1974, where three students tortured two girls they had just met. But what happened after what happened?we tell you in detail the facts behind the case.

The perpetrators of the events depicted in this Netflix movie belonged to wealthy families and had links to fascist organizations, as well as a criminal record. The crimes shocked the parents of the institution where the children studied, revealing a problem that clearly no one wanted to turn around to see.

It was a historic process in which the lone survivor had to face the guilty head-on.

The film ‘The Catholic School’ tells how Donatella Colasanti and Rosaria López were victims of the attacks of three young people, Gianni Guido, Angelo Izzo and Andrea Ghira. Where only one of them survived, Donatella, pretending to be dead after being locked in the hood of a car. The girl told during the trial all the evidence of her that she lived with her partner for three days in a row.

Donatella didn’t just have to face offenders’ defenders who came to blame the two girls for what happened, throwing questions like why they left? What did they do to make the boys behave like this? Even with all that pressure, Donatella he never stopped watching his attackers during the process.

The trial was historic, as it was a precursor to the future treatment of rape cases in Italy and had impressive media coverage. Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini and various exponents of feminist movements have written articles on what happened, linking the crime with political, gender and security issues.

After all the process, Donatella has embraced feminist militancy and led the campaign for the recognition of rape as a crime against the freedom of the attacked person and not against public morality, as required by Italian law. It had to wait years for results, 1996 being the year in which this law was passed.

All three boys were found guilty, Izzo was sentenced to life imprisonment, Guido to 30 years in prison, and Andre Ghira, who managed to escape, was also sentenced to life imprisonment. The latter was a fugitive for years, changing his identity, but in 1994 it was learned that he died of an overdose with the name of Massimo Testa.