WILLY DASPO

WILLY DASPO

Mar 7, 2026 | CHRONICLE

Gastronomic daspo is the common name given to the Willy Daspo ban imposed on Vigevano and the province of Pavia against the elusive lady in red.

Daspo “gastronomic” or restaurant ban because it prohibits entry to any restaurant in Vigevano in particular, but also throughout the province. 

But what is the reason for this rather bizarre ban? And who is this lady in red?

Woman in red, but not the elegant kind you see in the movies, quite the contrary.

This woman went to the restaurant L’oca ciuca in Vigevano, where she ate a meal worth seventy euros.

After her meal, she went outside to smoke a cigarette, then left without paying the bill.

Intercepted in a nearby street, she claimed she was going to fetch her wallet, but never did so.

When the complaint was filed, the restaurant owners discovered that the woman was well known to the police for having ‘eaten’ at other establishments in the area.

For this reason, the police commissioner added a Willy Daspo to the sentence for fraudulent insolvency.

Daspo is an acronym for Divieto di Accedere a manifestazioni SPOrtive (Ban on Access to Sporting Events), Law No. 401 of December 13, 1989, aimed at combating violence in stadiums.

Willy comes from Willy Monteiro Duarte, who was killed in 2020 for trying to defend a friend during a beating.

A measure aimed at combating violence was introduced in his name and published in the Official Gazette: the Decree-Law converted with amendments by Law No. 173 of December 18, 2020 (in G.U. 19/12/2020, No. 314).

Article 11
Letter b
Paragraph 1-bis
The Chief of Police may prohibit access to public establishments or public entertainment venues throughout the entire province to persons who, for the crimes referred to in paragraph 1, have been arrested or detained by the judicial authorities, or convicted, even if the sentence is not final.

No stadiums, no violence, but a measure that is extended to the entire territory of the province.

What do you think?

STILL WATER

STILL WATER

Jan 24, 2026 | CHRONICLE, MOVIES, WORLD

Still water commonly refers to natural water, but literally means water that is not moving.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
William Butler Yeats

Stillwater is also the name of a town in the United States that inspired the title of a 2021 film starring Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin.

Stillwater

 

 

Have you seen it?

As the trailer clearly shows, it is the story of a father who arrives in France from Stillwater to help his daughter who is in prison.

When the film was released, Amanda Knox sparked a heated controversy by writing:
Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #STILLWATER

Still water

Right? Of course.

I saw the film and honestly didn’t notice any correlations or references, apart from the fact that an American girl was in prison.

Furthermore, the film’s plot reveals an unexpected twist, and frankly, the fact that Amanda Knox strongly insists that this is her story surprises me, because it leads to a very specific consideration.

You know I never reveal details that could be spoilers, but if you’ve seen it, I’d love to hear your opinion.

Regardless, it happened again.

The Rip, the new film starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, was recently released, and they are promoting it.

During an interview for his podcast, Joe Rogan asked the two actors for their opinion on cancel culture.

Definition of cancel culture: an attitude of blame, usually expressed through social media, towards public figures or companies who have said or done something offensive or politically incorrect and who are therefore stripped of support and approval.

In short: media pillorying to achieve oblivion.

We know it well, would you like to give some examples?

Matt Damon responds by expressing his opinion:
I bet some of those people would have preferred to go to jail for 18 months or whatever, and then come out and say, ‘I paid my debt. Like, we’re done. Like, can we be done?’” The thing about that getting kind of excoriated, publicly like that, it just never ends. And it will just follow you to the grave.”

First of all, it’s an opinion.

And it refers to prison as the place where one pays their debt. It’s also a strong concept, undoubtedly, precisely to reinforce the comparison with the consequences of cancel culture.

But Amanda Knox once again felt compelled to attack Matt Damon, this time writing:
Another thing Matt Damon could have run by me about before putting out inyo the world.

Still water

Well… so Matt Damon should consult her before doing anything?

I would say that the water has become stagnant.

By now you know that I occasionally repeat Evelyn Beatrice Hall‘s quote. 

Am I too harsh on Amanda Knox?

Perhaps, you tell me.

Or is it just another case of “all publicity is good publicity”?

On January 26, a documentary entitled Mouth of the Wolf: Amanda Knox Returns to Italy, edited by Amanda Knox, will be released. It was filmed during her return to Italy, in Umbria, where she met again with Giuliano Mignini, who coordinated the investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher.

TERROR AT THE ANTICA CAFFETTERIA

TERROR AT THE ANTICA CAFFETTERIA

Jun 21, 2025 | CHRONICLE

Terror at the Antica Caffetteria in Gravellona Lomellina. 

Unfortunately not the title of a story. 

I told you about Gravellona in connection with the Mayor cat. 

I have not yet told you about Gravellona as a town of Art, but I will, sooner or later.

This time, I want to report a shocking news story.

The Antica Caffetteria in Gravellona is a café located along the main street running through the town, a small village, almost an island between the rice fields and the Three Lakes Park. 

A quiet place. Very quiet.

But on Monday evening between 7pm and 8pm, this quietness was shattered by an insane, unmotivated and cruel act.

At the Antica Caffetteria there are people sitting at tables, but among these people comes a man with black soul.

Perhaps because of a loss at gambling, perhaps because he didn’t like Sambuca, perhaps because anger and malice have mixed together, this man, a Tunisian, starts to go into a rage.

The bar owner, of Chinese origin, urges him to stop, receiving a punch in response.

An altercation ensues, the bartender’s husband intervenes, and after a physical confrontation the man is removed.

However, he reaches his wife sitting in the driver’s seat, pulls her out of the car, beats her too.

Then he gets into the car and heads for the bar.

Yes: you read that right.

This “man” drove his car towards the bar, hitting the people who were sitting at the tables.

The imponderable.

How often do we sit at a coffee shop table?

Terror at the Antica Caffetteria materialised in the shape of a car in the hands of a black soul.

Terror at the Antica Caffetteria turned into pain, an amputated leg, wounds, and suffering destined to accompany the hearts of an entire community and all those who might have been sitting at a coffee shop table one evening in June.

THREE MILLION EUROS

THREE MILLION EUROS

Jul 11, 2022 | CHRONICLE

Three million euros is the amount awarded as compensation for the 17 years spent in prison by an innocent man, one would wonder if this is the price of a depredation.

This is what I had written in recounting the Ilaria Alpi affair. 

But now unfortunately a further question must be added: Is three million euros the cause of Hashi Omar Hassan’s death?

According to the thesis bouncing around the various news outlets, the reason for the killing is precisely related to the compensation money.

But the Order of Journalists together with Usigrai and Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana, in union with all the associations participating in the #NoiNonArchiviamo campaign, 

have signed a writ of incorporation as offended parties to continue to demand the truth about the death of Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin.

Let’s take a step back: with the previous story, I had stopped with the compensation for the wrongful imprisonment of Hashi Omar Hassan. To summarize what happened next we can refer directly to his appeal published

on the Facebook page of Chi l’ha visto. 

Hashi Omar Hassan therefore asked for help so that he could find his family in Sweden and Somalia.

In Somalia, however, he found death, a violent death, just as violent was the death of Ilaria and Miran.

A bomb under the seat of his car in Mogadishu blasted him and the silence that like a dusting will fall back on the truth, beginning to cover it again with the blanket of time.

BABY FORMULA

BABY FORMULA

Jun 2, 2022 | CHRONICLE, ECONOMY, WORLD

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) defines infant formula: “Baby Formula” as a food that purports to be or is represented for special dietary use exclusively as infant formula by reason of its simulation of human milk or its suitability as a complete food or partial substitute for human milk.

It may seem strange, but in the United States the various brands of Baby Formula on the market are produced almost exclusively by the same company: Abbott Nutrition. 

Leaving aside issues of monopoly, this caused a huge problem when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) network, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local partners investigated consumer complaints and/or reports received by the FDA from September 2021 to February 2022 regarding illnesses among infants who allegedly consumed infant formula products from Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, MI, facility, advising consumers not to consume milk powder from certain batches.

Abbott initiated a voluntary, proactive recall of powdered formulas, including Similac, Alimentum and EleCare, manufactured in Sturgis, Michigan, one of the company’s manufacturing facilities.

Consumer complaints were related to Cronobacter sakazakii or Salmonella Newport found in infants who had consumed powdered infant formula produced at this facility.

This resulted in a drastic difficulty in sourcing powdered milk precisely because of the fact that virtually most of the production is from the same facility.

This is a huge problem, since infants whose mothers are not fortunate enough to have breast milk cannot feed on anything else.

Real special flights have been set up to solve this emergency: Open Fly Formula. 

A protocol has been initiated to transport infant formula via an airlift procured by the DOD i.e., the Department of Defense.

The company that produces this infant formula reports that in order to move the infant formula from Zurich, Switzerland, to Plainfield, Indiana, in the United States, it takes about 21 days with a commercial plane to ship and clear customs so that it can enter distribution.

Instead, the cargo was transferred from Switzerland to Ramstein to be loaded onto two C-17s on Bravo alert in Germany and through USTRANSCOM i.e., U.S. Transportation Command, the transport was done under the auspices of this sort of motto:
Regardless of whether the needs are in Ukraine, India or even here at home, from deploying combat-credible forces, to providing vaccines, food, water and supplies during a pandemic or natural disaster, USTRANSCOM will provide.

Can you tell me exactly what “combat-credible” means?

Undoubtedly the milk emergency had to be solved, what puzzles me is the mixing of “aid” and “military.”

Meanwhile, a kind of chain of solidarity was created among parents to find advice through Facebook groups in which, however, scammers and profiteers took over.

How did we do it before milk powder existed? I wonder, too.
Were nannies the only alternative?

IF YOU SEE HER: THE EX MOTHER IN LAW WANTS THE POLO BACK

IF YOU SEE HER: THE EX MOTHER IN LAW WANTS THE POLO BACK

Jan 14, 2022 | CHRONICLE, FASHION, ITALY, WHO CARES

If you see her: the ex-mother-in-law wants the Polo back this is the writing above the photo, published on the Dutch blog GeenStijl, of the woman we have come to know as Sara LemLem.

This story dramatic at first is becoming bitter for the people involved, to whom all my respect goes.

I know, this is also extreme who cares news, but since the episode of Chi l’ha visto hasn’t aired, we can’t run out of updates, right?

And since it all started from Vigevano … you don’t care, do you ?!
Come on, now I’m telling laughing

For those who are not chilavister … briefly: in December the appeal for a woman who disappeared from Vigevano is released.

I know you will say “with the fog you have, where is the news?” 🙂

Joking aside, obviously the companion is very worried, even if, perhaps due to apprehension, his words at first seem strange.

In light of the incessant news about feminicide,  also considered that Mr. Corrado said that Sara left after a quarrel, he was asked questions about the nature and above all about the modalities of their quarrel, fearing the worst.

In the following days the searches are extended in every possible way, and the firefighters plumb the Naviglio Sforzesco and other city waterways, without any positive results.

But the diffusion of the photo, published on the website of Chi l’ha visto, bounces almost everywhere, and leads to a Dutch track that reveals a twist unexpected about Sara’s past.

Patrick, from Amstelveen, provides documents, photographs and also the complaint relating to the car of his mother, the ex-mother-in-law who wants the Polo back, which seem to leave no doubts.

The contact takes place through the editorial staff of the Informatore Vigevanese to which then Mr. Corrado tells more details about how he met Sara on a Belgian dating site, and about their trip to Italy.

Sara never wanted him to go to her flat claiming that it was in common with an Egyptian cousin, with whom she also collaborated on a working level.
Sara arrived at the meeting with all her luggage in a car that she left in a parking lot in Antwerp, saying that a friend of hers would have taken steps to recover it.
Sara told him she had lost all documents.

And I’m not even writing that, while doing research, I found Sara as an author, or more precisely as a Milanese videomaker of Eritrean and Ethiopian origins, but that the link leads to an even different identity: Sarita, because at this point it is not even important.

Thinking of people who disappear, where it does not turn out to be a terrible epilogue, one wonders HOW one can even travel without a trace …

Here, in this case the ex mother-in-law rightly wants the Polo back.

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