Operation "DIONISO" - Update

"He" decides everything, "He" decides who you can hang out with, where you can work. "He" chooses which girls should make him have fun. "He" chooses if you can or cannot attend our "fairy places". "He" is "He". We call him "He" or "the Doctor", because we cannot name his name, it is not allowed to us.

She was one of the victims who, with her chilling story to the investigators, gave rise to the investigation that led the Novara State Police and the Central Operational Service of the State Police to carry out 26 personal searches and 21 searches. local and numerous kidnappings, in the provinces of Novara, Milan and Pavia.

The articulated investigation activity conducted by the policemen of the Novara Mobile Squad and the SCO, coordinated by the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office - DDA with the application of a magistrate from the Novara Public Prosecutor's Office and which also saw the collaboration of the Mobile Squad of Turin, made it possible to ascertain the existence of a powerful "psychosette", with an operational base in the province of Novara and branches in the city of Milan and in the Pavia area, whose followers were allegedly responsible for numerous and serious crimes in the sexual field, including to the detriment of minors and aimed at reducing them to slavery.

"He", now 77 years old, called "the Doctor" is revered by his followers as a sort of "God" to whom everyone must obey, under penalty of isolation from the sectarian group.

The detailed investigations, which lasted over two years, made it possible to ascertain that the leader of the sect of "beasts" (this is the nickname with which they called each other), in order to achieve their goals, was assisted by some of his close collaborators, better defined as real torturers.

The criminal group, thanks to a psychological center and a dense network of commercial activities, all attributable to the sect - such as two dance schools or a school of "Celtic Sword", several herbalists, a craft shop, and even a publishing house - he was able to recruit the unsuspecting victims to be unknowingly introduced into sectarian dynamics.

The "chosen ones", generally young girls, even teenagers or even girls, as in the case of the complainant, were introduced to the philosophy of the sect and started to "magical practices", among which, above all, they included sexual practices, often extreme and painful, real tortures, which served, in the logic imparted by the leader, to cancel "the thinking self", "light the inner fire" and enter a "magical, fantastic and secret world".

The sect thus ended up absorbing every aspect of the life of the adepts, both as regards their personal and family environment, and even their formation.

In practice, as happened with the victims ascertained so far, either family members were incorporated into the sect and induced to submit to the will of the "Doctor", or the followers were required to cut off any kind of relationship with them. The “Doctor” decided the course of study, the training courses or the work that the girls had to carry out, almost always in the commercial activities linked to the organization with the subtle aim of binding them indissolubly to the sectarian group.

All this determined a real isolation from the outside world which deprived the followers of any point of reference, making them totally dependent on the sect which, although harmful, constituted at that point the only economic and moral support.

From the complainant's story it emerged that the sect had originated in the mid-80s from the merger of two parallel groups, whose main office is located in the province of Novara, the place where "the Doctor" usually lives, and in which they took place the most significant crime events.

The 'Doctor', even from his home, was thus able to manage, in a capillary manner, every movement of the followers, regardless of their location in the territory. The investigation activity has in fact made it possible to verify that "He", even when they were in the numerous apartments and rooms attributable to the sect, mainly located in the Milanese or Pavia area, thanks to his loyalists, was able to impart the directives to be observed in an imperative manner.

During the 30 years of activity of the sect, a number of people who have not yet fully quantified, but certainly high, have participated and have been part of it, in various capacities and with various roles.

Further investigations were also carried out on the economic aspects, both as regards the commercial activities related to the organization, and as regards the payments of money to which the members were required, which were particularly exorbitant in the case of comfortable economic conditions. Often, therefore, new members were appropriately chosen from wealthy people.

That carried out on the night between Saturday and Sunday is to be considered a particularly complex operation due to the specific nature of an impenetrable criminal organization which is still active and which, for over thirty years, has managed to pursue its own criminal purposes, causing victims persistent psychological damage up to, in some cases, the permanent impairment of mental faculties.

No one could consider himself immune from the danger of being introduced into the organization; even girls with a very high cultural level and apparently free from external influences risked being annexed to the sect if identified as "prey".

This is because the organization made use of professional psychologists, in turn adepts, who, relying on a state of emotional fragility of the "prey", even if only momentarily, undertook the work of indoctrination and inclusion, according to a precise and detailed "Scheme": the neophytes were filled with attention, concern and subjected to a real "brainwashing"; this led them to open up more and more to the practices of the organization, to the point of uncritically accepting unbearable violence and abuses of all kinds.

Everything went on until one of the victims was able to overcome, in part, the traumas resulting from the group's attendance, breaking the wall of silence that enveloped this impenetrable underwater world.

The numerous searches and seizures were carried out in the early hours of Sunday 19 July by the Novara Mobile Squad and the Central Operational Service with the participation of the staff of the Mobile Teams of Turin, Milan, Genoa, Pavia, Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Vercelli, Verbania and Aosta, as well as crews from the Crime Prevention Departments of Milan and Turin.

Operation "DIONISO" - Update