Her long and affectionate friendship with Piero Marrazzo (”I’ve known him since 2001, we talked about our things”), Brenda’s death (“others could have wanted her dead because when she got drunk she robbed clients and asked trans for money”), but especially that 3rd of July when she was discovered with former Lazio governor Piero Marrazzo: trans Natalie, one of the main characters of the Marrazzo affaire, told her version yesterday night at Porta a Porta. With several benchmarks: “Marrazzo didn’t know about the blackmail, that night Cafasso wasn’t there: there were only two carabinieri in plain clothes”.

“Marrazzo – said Natalie at Bruno Vespa’s programme – never brought and never asked me to bring drugs. I don’t know what happened with the others, but he knew that I’m not a drug addict and that I don’t like drugs”. Natalie then reconstructed how Brenda and Michelle were involved: he met then, according to the Brazilian trans, last March. They had taken some photos and Marrazzo asked them to delete them. Thirty thousand Euros? They are too much: trans tend to exaggerate and Piero didn’t know about the blackmail because he thought that the photos had been deleted. But he wasn’t absolutely sure”.

Then, in front of the video cameras, Natalie talked about that 3rd of July: after the blitz, she explained, during which she was closed on the balcony twice without having the chance to see anything, Marrazzo called her back: he didn’t know anything about the video and asked me not say anything about what had happened”. Natalie also said she saw the video, even if she can only reveal certain parts: “At the beginning – he said – you can see me opening the door and saying that I’m busy, them they threw me on the couch and took out on the balcony. The drugs on a plate with a card? I think it was just a fake: at the beginning you can see the coffee table with the money. I didn’t put the cocaine there, in fact Marrazzo realized it only when the carabinieri left.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute