Traces of the incredible ayahuasca have been found on the body of Alex Marangon, the bartender found dead two days after his disappearance during a shamanic ritual at the Vidor Abbey (Treviso). The confirmation comes from toxicological tests carried out by Professor Donata Favretto of the University of Trieste. The 25-year-old man from Marcon (Venice) was participating in the shamanic event on the night of 29-30 June when he moved away from the scene and was not heard from again until his lifeless body was found two days later. the bed of the Piave about 4 kilometres away, with injuries and bruises. For the boy's death, the Treviso prosecutor's office opened a murder case, never closed or amended in the meantime, but without so far registering any suspects among the twenty or so participants and the two Colombian saints present at the ritual (and made untraceable). Ayahuasca is banned in Italy and some foreign countries: it causes powerful hallucinations.
Alex's message to a friend
The bartender, according to today's Corriere del Veneto, could have voluntarily decided to consume this dangerous substance. “I arrived earlier, in a shared house, now I ate a pizza, it seems that there are good proposals, many news, I have already said that I will not do the whole season, I am going to a ceremony with ayahuasca”, the young man would have written to a friend in a message.
The Count of the Abbey speaks
After months, the count who owns the Vidor Abbey, Giulio Da Sacco, spoke about the case, interviewed by the Gazzettino di Treviso. “Honestly, for me the most likely hypothesis is that Alex, perhaps in the grip of drugs, threw himself into the void,” Da Sacco said. “I shared this thought with Alex's mother and I don't understand why it was considered offensive. I am very sorry if you considered me indelicate but I simply said what I thought and what I think. Obviously I do not exclude that it could have been an accident. This thesis seems to be emerging.” The family does not believe in the accident but in the fact that someone could have hurt Alex. “I believe that when faced with such heartbreaking pain as the death of a child,” said the abbey's owner, “the mind does not want to accept it and produces all sorts of alternative thoughts to the point of imagining human sacrifices within satanic masses. Delusions that are only understandable if they are dictated by unbearable pain.”
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