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Sons of San Patrignano Community founder sue Netflix
Series allegedly gives distorted picture
07 Aprile 2021
ROME, APR 7 - The sons of the late founder of
Comunità di San Patrignano, a Italian community that helps
addicts, are suing Netflix for aggravated defamation, Corriere
Romagna reported on Wednesday.
Andrea and Giacomo Muccioli allege Netflix s documentary series SanPa: Sins of the Savior gives a distorted picture of their
father Vincenzo and the community he founded in 1978, the report
said.
The sons refer to allusions in the series that Vincenzo Muccioli
may have died of AIDS and could have been gay.
They filed a complaint with Carabinieri police a few days ago,
SanPa, many voices to reconstruct the story of Vincenzo Muccioli and San Patrignano
Released a week ago, the Netflix docu-series is causing much discussion. It is a cross section that reconstructs the history of the community from its foundation in 1978 until Muccioli s death in 1995.
Carlo Gabardini, who produced it together with
Gianluca Neri and Paolo Bernardelli, sums up well what inspired SanPa, the Netflix series dedicated to the San Patrignano community. It is a theme that opens, and in some ways closes, the documentary that has at its centre the figure of
Vincenzo Muccioli.
THE HISTORY OF SANPA
It was in the 1970s that the spread of drugs began to be increasingly discussed in Italy. This was immediately done in sensationalist and accusatory tones. The first episode was a police action on a barge on the Tiber in Rome and caused a great clamour, as