Paolo Crepet returns to comment on the funeral of Giulia Cecchettin in Padua, where thousands of people said their last farewell to the young woman killed by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta. “It was right to give such a big space because the feelings were so big and also torn,” the psychiatrist and sociologist told Stasera Italia on Rete4. We experienced “a movement of souls, of boys and girls, because the place was full of young people, not just adults,” says the expert.
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The focus of the discussion is Turetta. Italy was affected in a way by this case because Giulia was a girl like many others, as was her murderer: “But behind a heinous crime there is often someone from a good family who ‘always said hello’ as if the greeting was like that “a kind of traditional stigma of sainthood,” says Crepet. The psychiatrist rejects the equation of men and violence and clashes on this issue with Monica Ricci Sargentini from Corriere della Sera, who is also a guest of Nicola Porro. The journalist highlights how traditional education somehow encourages male violence. “But how do you say “masculine”? – blurts out Crepet – these are more complex things, there is a cultural project behind them.” In short, genetics has nothing to do with this and cannot be oversimplified.
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“But there is latent aggression in men,” replies Ricci Sargentini. “So Sinner is a potential murderer,” Crepet replies, looking at the blue tennis player, who is the same age as Turetta. The journalist then makes a very long list about the dominance of male offenders. “It is the price of masculinity”; he says, surprising Crepet and Porro. Ricci Sargentini: “It’s a patriarchal culture. You solve this problem.” “And you solve the problems of the Kapos in the concentration camps and the texts of the trappers. I don’t understand what gender means, I know what people mean,” Crepet replies. The positions are incompatible: “There are almost exclusively female teachers in schools,” says Crepet. “But it is the culture that is patriarchal,” is the reply of the psychiatrist, who replies: “It is playing a shell game.”