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07 April 2021Andrea and Giacomo Muccioli, sons of Vincenzo the founder of the Community of San Patrignano, have sued Netflix for aggravated defamation, which made the documentary on the community and on the figure of the father.
The Corriere Romagna reports it.
'SanPa.
Lights and darkness in SanPatrignano ', the Netflix docuseries that also reports long excerpts from an interview with Andrea Muccioli, would have offended the memory of his father Vincenzo.
According to Muccioli's sons, assisted by the lawyer Alessandro Catrani, the series makes a distorted reconstruction of the history of the community and of the founder.
Also according to the lawsuit there are allusions and lies such as the presumed death from AIDS of Vincenzo Muccioli to be traced back to an equally presumed homosexuality.
The lawsuit was presented to the carabinieri in recent days.
'SanPa' is Netflix's first Italian original docu-series, Production 42, which landed on 30 December 2020 on the streaming platform for an audience of 190 countries.
Written by Carlo Gabardini, Gianluca Neri, Paolo Bernardelli and directed by Cosima Spender, it was created with 25 testimonies, 180 hours of interviews and images taken from 51 different archives.
From the docuseries, a few days after availability on the platform, the Community of San Patrignano had already formally and "completely" dissociated itself, defining the story as "unilateral", "summary and partial", with a narrative focused "mainly" on "testimonies of detractors ".