Away from conspiracy theories, sensationalism, and spectacularization.

A crime festival, whose founding manifesto promises to stay “away from conspiracy theories, sensationalism, and spectacularization” and to “replace rigorous investigation with morbid voyeurism.” On stage, an eminent interlocutor, Marcello La Matina, a classicist and professor of Semiotics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Macerata.

Starting from the birth of Justice in Aeschylus and concluding with Manzoni’s denunciation of those judges who could have seen but chose not to see, we delved into the intricate web of investigative, expert, and judicial processes – and also the interplay of people and emotions – that emerges from the book “Il Garbuglio di Garlasco.”

Press freedom and justice, technical investigations and prosecutors, moral judgment and law, plot of thrillers and plot of reality: before an attentive and participating audience, including very young people, in a splendid location, yesterday afternoon in Grottammare.

Thanks to the two artistic directors of the Sommersi festival, Roberto Taddeo and Daniele Piccioni, who made this unusual conversation and evening possible.