Transsexuals, Officials, Cocaine and Murder

A very interesting story has erupted in Italy involving cocaine, a high ranking politician, several policemen and a few Brazilian transsexuals.

It all started when Piero Marrazzo was sitting and having a chat with his Brazilian transsexual girlfriend, Natalie in her apartment in Rome. The problem with this scenario is that Marrazzo was having a chat wearing nothing but his underwear, and with an ample amount of cocaine on the premises.

The next thing that happened was that four "state" police, or carabinieri, burst into the apartment brandishing video cameras. The officers then went on to blackmail Marrazzo, who was then the president of the Lazio region of Italy (Rome is in Lazio). While blackmailing Marrazzo, the officers were also trying to sell the scandalous tapes to several TV stations and magazines. Eventually the truth came out and Marrazzo stepped down as president of the region. This is where the case gets weird.

One of Natalie's best friends, named Brenda, winds up dead under very suspicious circumstances. It seems that her apartment caught on fire and she died from smoke inhalation, but her laptop was found to have been submerged under water before the fire broke out... What was she trying to hide, or destroy? In the aftermath Natalie runs off to Perugia, fearing for her life.

Gianguerino Cafasso, a part-time drug pusher and full-time tran-fan who knows all the Brazilian transsexuals in the area, winds up dead. Cafasso, who had a weight problem and suffered from diabetes, was given a lethal dose of cocaine and heroin, a dose much stronger than he would ever be able to handle physically.

The man who administered the lethal dose? Nicola Testini, a Marshall in the Rome police department and the ex-boss of those four original policemen who were blackmailing Marrazzo in the first place. It would have been a perfect homicide, except that another transsexual, this time named Jennifer, gave incriminating evidence against Testini.

Other facts that are relevant to the case are appearing on a daily basis. Another unnamed transsexual has recently claimed that Marrazzo, himself a tran-fan for many years, helped to pay for the operation that completed her transformation into a female.

The whole case has been labeled as a scandal, but I dont see why it should be; it's not the first time that an important person gets caught frequenting transsexuals and taking drugs. Lapo Elkann, an heir to the Agnelli fortune (founders of FIAT), was caught in a similar situation when he overdosed on a drug cocktail in a transsexual's apartment in Turin in 2005.