The disappearance of teenagers and their suspicious friends
One January 1998, 16-year-old musician Fabio Tollis and his 19-year-old girlfriend Chiara Marino were drinking at the Midnight Pub in Milan. The couple did not return home from what has been implicitly called “the city’s main metal scene” that evening.
While the explanation for the teenager’s disappearance was not taken seriously by the police, law enforcement assumed the teenagers had fled.
Later, law enforcement did not notice that the bodies of the teenagers, who were brutally murdered during a satanic ritual, were in the forest near the Italian city of Somma Lombardo, northwest of Milan.
Fabio’s father, Michel Tollis, felt that something was wrong. When the young people did not appear at home a day later, he started his own investigation. Tollis attended metal concerts all over Europe, interviewed everyone who knew his son, and finally managed to collect a whole file.
He learned that Fabio and his girlfriend were addicted to the most extreme forms of metal music: death and black metal, which focused on images of murder and satanism. Chiara’s room also contained a collection of demonic literature and paraphernalia, which led Tollis to believe that the disappearance might be related to demon worship or sects.
The strange behavior of some of Fabio’s friends, who seemed to avoid asking any questions about Michel’s son or were too evasive, also raised suspicions. Tollis was sure they were hiding something, and he was right.
“The Strange Story of Michel Tollis”
Michel Tollis’ investigation took six years before he took the collected materials to the police.
In January 2004, a man heard the news of the brutal murder of a 27-year-old girl named Mariangela Pezzotta. He was shot dead and buried alive in a greenhouse in the town of Golasecca, near Somma Lombardo.
The murdered girl’s ex-boyfriend, member of the death metal band “Beasts of Satan” Andrea Volpe, later came under police suspicion. He and his 18-year-old fiancee, Elizabeth Ballarin, who ran away from home as a teenager, were arrested when they were involved in a car accident on their way to the river after taking an overdose of cocaine and heroin. car of the murdered Pezzota.
Hearing the name of the criminal, Michel Tollis recalled that once Andrea Volpe played in the same band with his son and rushed to the police.
It was a strange story told by Michel Tollis. “Teniente carabinieri Enzo Molinari has done a real investigation into the lone disappearance of his son and his girlfriend.”
According to him, Michel has backed up his story with a very convincing amount of documents and photographs he’s collected over the past six years. Thanks to this, the three murders were indirectly connected with Andrea Volpe, forcing the musician to speak.
After several interrogations, Volpe confessed to murdering Mariangela Pezzota and also to the murder of Fabio Tollis, Chiara Marino, and his ex-girlfriend Maddalena Russo, who were sacrificed on Friday the 13th, 1995.
Volpe committed all the murders with members of the Beasts of Satan group, including Nicola Sapone, Pietro Guerrieri, Mario Macchione, Paolo Leoni, Marco Zampollo, Eros Monterosso.
How was it
During interrogations, Volpe admitted that Mariangela Pezzota was killed because she knew about the Demon Beasts sect. [группа идентифицировала себя в том числе и как секта] too much. Wolpe devised a kill plan and invited him to dinner.
But the plan turned out to be more difficult to realize: a fight broke out when the rock musician attacked Pezzota, the girl resisted. Then a rock musician shot him in the mouth with a .38 pistol, but he didn’t die, despite the pain.
Then the killer called bandmate Nicola Sapone. He shouted, threatened and accused: “You can’t even kill a human!” But he still came to help.
Together they hit the girl several times with a shovel, and as it turned out later, they hid the body of a still-living girl in the greenhouse of the house of Elizabeth Ballarin’s parents.
Volpe also explained how Fabio Tollis and his girlfriend were killed, and showed them where their bodies were buried.
That evening, the murderers decided to sacrifice Chiara Marino, believing she was an incarnation of the Virgin Mary. At the full moon, the girl was taken to the forest, and her body was cut with a knife so that she bled to death. Fabio Tollis died trying to protect Chiara: first he was beaten half to death with a hammer and then his throat was slit. He was killed by Fabio Mario Macchione, who called himself the agent of the “Devil’s Beasts”. Tollis considered him his best friend.
After that, the Satanists dug a hole for the couple, and after digging, they danced in their graves and shouted with laughter: “You are now zombies! Try to get out of this hole if you dare!” More or less the same thing happened during every “midnight ritual”.
The cult members also admitted that they pushed drummer Andrea Bontade to suicide and that they refused to help the trio kill Marino and Tollis. In September 1998, Bontade got drunk and crashed his car.
Beasts of Satan is suspected of involvement in 14 unsolved murders and disappearances. These crimes include: the disappearance of former band member Christian Frigerio in November 1996, the hanging of Volpe’s 21-year-old girlfriend, the burning of caretaker and friend of Devil’s Beasts Angelo Lombardo, and many more deaths or someone else linked to the group.
Investigators could not prove the musicians’ involvement in these crimes.
Sentence
In February 2005, Andrea Volpe and Pietro Guerrieri were sentenced to 30 and 16 years in prison, respectively. Although Mario Macchione confessed to the murders, he was acquitted. His role in the crimes, as the court thought, was secondary.
Later, other members of the group were also sentenced to long prison terms. Leaders Nicola Sapone and Paolo Leoni, suspected of founding a cult and organizing the murders, were sentenced to life in prison. For participating in the three murders, Marco Zampollo was sentenced to 29 years, Eros Monterosso – 27 years, and Elizabeth Ballarin – 23 years.
Bloody orgy and music will be “stopped”
The crimes of the heavy metal band were later called a “bloody orgy” by the Italian media, and the police and church expressed their concerns over the danger posed by demonic sects. In post-war Italy, their numbers only increased from year to year.
The crimes of the “Demon Beasts” led to a ban on the daytime showing of fortune-tellers, psychics, sorcerers, seers and other magicians on state-level television in order to protect society from respect propaganda. from the other world.
The clergy also reacted: the Roman Catholic Church began offering lectures on Satanism, sectarianism, and the occult, and the Roman Catholic University began offering a course for priests in exorcism and possession.
As Alexander Orishev, doctor of historical sciences and author of the book “These Strange Europeans,” told socialbites.ca, the popularity of the occult in Italy is explained by the peculiarities of the local mentality and the decline in Roman Catholic authority. The church that can no longer create life guides for parishioners, as it did in the past.
“There is information that there are more than 8 thousand demonic sects in modern Italy. Doctor of historical sciences, the island of Sicily is often called “the devil’s paradise”.
According to him, Italians are one of the most religious nations in Europe, but they are also extremely superstitious. Characterized by their moods of protest, some Italian youth seek a way out in other religious practices, including radical ones. The expert emphasizes that the danger of totalitarian sects lies precisely in the fact that there is no way out of them.
“Joining them is a one-way ticket. And often the members of these groups crush those who dare to somehow contradict their adherents. The sect does not tolerate and severely punishes those who repent,” says Alexander Orishev.
According to the historian, music and any form of Satanism do not play any role in the spread of Satanism. It’s just an outside environment, Orishev is sure.
At the same time, using the example of “The Devil’s Beasts”, they disagreed with the view that music had nothing to do with sects in Italy. Thereupon, priest Don Aldo Buonaito called for the banning of death metal, saying, “If music becomes an instrument of vile deeds and death, it must be stopped.”
As psychologist Irina Matveeva explains, music in general cannot induce people to commit murder, but it still has a certain effect. The expert says, for example, that the “heavy” metal genres have a strong influence on the mind and psyche of the listeners.
“The advent of rock music in the West in the ’50s was marked by an explosion of suicide and a veritable mental epidemic that destroyed the moral barriers that animals and basic human tendencies had designed to curb. The beginning of the rock epidemic was the beginning of the drug epidemic and the so-called sexual revolution,” says the expert.
“Heavy” music is explained by the fact that laser light effects cause profound damage to vision when using the hearing, spine, endocrine and nervous systems, Matveeva says. At the same time, as many studies have said, the main problem with the impact of rock music on victims lies in the volume. It is he who causes fatigue, narcissism, panic, indigestion, hypertension, and an unusual narcotic state.
A few years ago, neurosurgeons at the University of Illinois discovered a painful syndrome they called “rhythmic toxicosis.” The psychologist explains that a person who “abuses” listening to rock music shows all the signs of alcohol or drug intoxication, but no traces of these substances are found in his body.
“Fixed oddities when listening to heavy music and Soviet scientists. They found that seventh graders, after listening to rock for 10 minutes, forgot the multiplication tables for a while, ”the expert notes.
A result of the influence of rock music can also be called nervous overstimulation, which causes euphoria, suggestibility, hysteria up to hallucinations, a depressive state leading to neurosis and psychosis, various forms of self-mutilation, unbridled destruction impulses, especially in large gatherings. Irina Matveeva, vandalism and riot after concerts and rock festivals. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to blame music for all the troubles, but it is worth paying attention to what we listen to, adds the psychologist.
Source: Gazeta
