Franca Viola ville inte gifta sig. Inte enbart av anledningen att hon bara var 15 år gammal, utan för att den som sade sig ha rätten att förlova sig med henne var mannen som våldtagit henne.

Med sin familj i ryggen sade Franca nej till det som då, på Sicilien år 1963, kallades ett rehabiliterande äktenskap. Ett äktenskap som liksom suddar ut tidigare brott och gör dem ogjorda. 

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Shocking drama in Palermo – La Stampa (7/8 1965)

Don Rodrigo in Sicily – Epoca (5/2 1966)

​​He raped a girl to marry her after kidnapping her with 12 accomplices – La Stampa (8/12 1966) 

The incredible story of Alcamo – La Stampa (12/12 1966)

The Civil Party asks for a “just condemnation” of the young man who kidnapped and raped the eighteen-year-old – La Stampa (13/12 1966)

Beauty defies old custom, charges rape – Gettysburg Times (10/12 1966)

The request for a physical examination on the 18-year-old who was kidnapped and raped – La Stampa (12/12 1966)

I asked for 23 years for the young man who kidnapped and raped the girl: tomorrow the sentence – La Stampa (15/12 1966)

“My daughter Franca will never marry the man who kidnapped and dishonored her” – La Stampa (16/12 1966)

Trapani: the judges in the Council Chamber Trapani – La Stampa (16/12 1966)

The kidnapper of Alcamo sentenced to 11 years – La Stampa (17/12 1966)

‘Kidnapped’ bride beats the Mafia – The People (18/12 1966)

The Mafia sentence Franca for beating them – Daily Mirror (19/12 1966)

Evolved Sicily in favor of the sentence of Trapani – La Stampa (19/12 1966)

Another girl kidnapped in the Trapani area by her ex-boyfriend who does not give up – La Stampa (20/12 1966)

Love Kidnapper – Daily Mirror (21/12 1966)

Sicilian girls say ‘no’ – Aberdeen Press and Journal (24/12 1966)

​​The girl from Salenti who has returned home also refuses to marry and reports her kidnapper – La Stampa (26/12 1966)

New Symbols of modern Sicily – La Stampa (27/12 1966)

Eighteen-year-old non-octet ninths with the kidnapper – La Stampa (24/1 1967)

Announcements – Illustrated London News (20/4 1968)

Victim Defies tradition to marry – The Evening News (4/12 1968)

Girl who defied the mafia is married – Birmingham Daily Post (5/12 1968)

Vatican City – Birmingham Daily Post (19/12 1968)

The kidnapper of Franca Viola murdered the girl who refused a make-up wedding – La Stampa (13/4 1978)

There can no longer be a shotgun wedding – La Stampa (18/2 1981)

Franca Viola: “I, who 50 years ago made history with my no to the repairing wedding“ – Republica (27/12 2015)

Honor killing and shotgun marriage: when women said enough – Republica (6/10 2021)

Story of a thwarted sunset: The abrogative law of the cause of honor and shotgun marriage – Political Gender Violence and Institutions (275-327), Vittoria Calabrò 

The case of Franca Viola: Debating Gender, Nation and Modernity in 1960s Italy – Contemporary European History, 25(1), 97-115, Niamh Cullen

Schizzi italiani: i volti dell’Italia moderna – Deirdre Pirro

“Rocco Code” – Penal Code, ROYAL DECREE 19 October 1930, n. 1398

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily (2023-10-07).