by Alessandro Amicarelli — October 12, 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of a tragic event for the Italian democracy. On that date the Aldo Braibanti case, a judicial disgrace in a republican, democratic and anti-fascist Italy, began. All the more so because the defendant on trial would shortly be a young philosophy graduate, formerly on the Italian Communist Party’s central committee, formerly a partisan, accused of using plagio, the legal guise of brainwashing, to allegedly obtain sexual favors from younger boys.
Aldo Braibanti was a homosexual and in 1964 in Italy this was intolerable and therefore he had to be depicted to the public as a manipulative monster. The newspapers were competing for the headline, presenting him as the professor who had taken advantage of two young students. But Braibanti was not, nor was he ever, a professor, and those two “students,” were not his students but were in fact one a college student and the other an electrician, all the more both over the age of 18. The story is unbelievable and sounds like something taken from a medieval witch-hunting manual.
On Oct. 12, 1964, the father of one of those two boys, Ippolito Sanfratello, father of Giovanni, the alleged victim of plagio, filed a complaint with the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office against Aldo Braibanti, accusing him of the crime of plagio for having induced his son, by entering his mind, to have sexual relations with him. Giovanni, according to another common chapter in the script of some countries, will be subjected to continuous electroshocks and held for a long time in an asylum under psychiatric care to be purified from plagio, or subjected to techniques that in the terminology of modern anti-cultists is called deprogramming, that they have long practiced after the kidnapping of the alleged victim.
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