Bitter Winter A magazine on religious liberty and human rights 09/03/2024Massimo Introvigne A+ | A- a 33-year-old Italian woman called Sharon Verzeni put her tennis shoes on and left her home in the small Northern Italian town of Terno d’Isola for one of the quick walks recommended by her dietologist to lose weight she called the emergency line from her cell phone and managed to say she had been repeatedly stabbed with a knife on the road She was taken to the Pope John XXIII Hospital in the nearby city of Bergamo but was not able to supply other details of the attack as she quickly lost consciousness and died a man with whom she had had a relationship for thirteen years and was about to marry was grilled by the police for several days as video cameras were functioning both on the main and the back door of the house where he lived with Sharon and confirmed that only the woman went out that night not surprisingly the police heard reports of occasional quarrels within the couple but in general theirs was described as a loving relationship At any rate, the idea that the crime had “something to do” with Scientology had been launched. Not having new information to feed on their readers on the crime, several Italian media devoted articles to Scientology and some reported the opinions of the anti-cultists. The main daily newspaper in Rome contacted CESNUR reported the information on Scientology in a quite confused way Happily, after one month of investigations, the assassin was identified and confessed. He was a failed songwriter, currently unemployed, with both drug and violence problems, who went out that night determined to kill somebody randomly chosen. Sharon was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The killer, one Moussa Sangare, is an Italian citizen born in Milan thirty-one years ago, whose parents came from Mali. He excluded any ideological or religious motivation, and to blame immigration because of its African origins would amount to just more political profiteering, not less obnoxious than blaming Scientology. Unfortunately, similar crimes have been perpetrated by Italians whose parents are not immigrants as well. la tolleranza risorgimentale per religioni diverse dalla cattolica a Torino ha contribuito a creare il mito della “capitale delle spiritualità alternative” After a month-long journey by land and also by sea a huge cargo of Uyghur slave labor products reached its destination Un convegno in una prestigiosa sede istituzionale ha visto il confronto fra accademici e personalità religiose A site likely connected with Chinese intelligence services publishes lists of refugees who have applied for asylum in Italy CESNURVia Confienza 1910121 TorinoItalyinfo@bitterwinter.org Copyright © 2025 · Bitter Winter · PRIVACY POLICY· COOKIE POLICY