An incredible murder shock shakes Italy to its foundations! Lorenzo Carbone (50) confessed in front of cameras that he had strangled his 80-year-old mother Loretta Levrini in cold blood – live on Italian television. Critics demand consequences and accuse the media of shameless sensationalism.
“I strangled her” – these words of Lorenzo Carbone shocked Italy when they were broadcast by the television channel Pomeriggio5. The 50-year-old man from the province of Modena brutally murdered his mother, 80-year-old Loretta Levrini, who suffered from dementia. She was found lifeless by her daughter in her home in Spezzano di Fiorano the day before the broadcast. Investigators suspected foul play early on and the search for Carbone, who had lived with his mother, began.
You appeared confused and dazed before reporters
But after the crime, Carbone fled to the nearby town of Pavullo to gain some distance, as he said later in the interview. It was only when he returned to the house the day after the crime that the Pomeriggio5 TV crew met Carbone. They had been investigating the case there. The reporter found him in front of his mother’s house, confused and dazed.
When asked if he was Lorenzo, he confirmed it and made a full confession shortly afterward. In shocking detail, Carbone described suffocating his mother, first with a pillow, then with a pillowcase, and finally with string. “It got too hard for me,” he told the reporter.
Media under fire: sensationalism about morality?
Immediately after the confession, the journalists informed the carabinieri, who arrived shortly afterwards and arrested Carbone. But the event was already on the screens. The channel Canale 5 showed not only the shocking confession, but also the arrest live on television. This approach caused serious criticism. In particular, the fact that the confused man was questioned in front of millions of viewers while the police were already on their way met with widespread rejection.
Director Myrta Merlino defended her decision to broadcast the interview. She told the “Corriere della Sera” that she had only a few minutes to decide. “I immediately informed the Carabinieri and got their permission to send the images,” she said. Although some of the most brutal details of the murder were omitted, the broadcast of the dramatic scene caused a storm of indignation.
The decision to present the confession and arrest in this way was hotly debated on social networks and in the media. Critics such as journalist Ermes Antonucci called it “the lowest point of the media circus”. Gaia Tortora of TG, the news program on Italian television channel La7, added: “What happened today shows that we have reached the lowest point of ethics.”
Source: Krone
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