News on the Samarate massacre
4 May 2024
10.31am
“They were two special people and I miss them more every day”: this is what Nicolò Maja said, the only survivor of the family massacre in Samarate (Varese) where his father killed his mother and sister.
Nicolò Maja he is 25 years old and is the only survivor of the Samarate massacre (Varese): on the night between 3 and 4 May 2022, Father Alessandro Maja he killed his wife And his sixteen year old daughter Giulia And seriously injured the boy. After months in a coma, Nicolò he woke up and began to undergo long therapy. The father, meanwhile, was sentenced to life. The sentence was also confirmed by the Court of Assizes of Appeal.
“They were two special people and I miss them more every day, the memories of many moments we spent together remain. I’m sure that my mother and my sister Giulia would be proud of me, of the path I’m taking to return to a normal life after everything that has happened.“, the 25-year-old said in an interview with the newspaper Il Giorno.
Just yesterday, Friday 3 May, the interior designer wrote a letter to his son again. The man tried, once again, to want to reconnect with the boy: “Right now I’m not ready to meet him – explains Nicolò – maybe it could happen in the future, not alone but accompanied by other people. Physically I am better, I am recovering and my desire is to find a job in the aeronautics sector, in line with my studies“.
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Today, Saturday 4 May 2024, two years after the massacres, the family will remember Stefania Pivetta and Giulia Maja with a visit to the cemetery and a mass in their suffrage: “Stefy, Giulia, two years have already passed since you left us. It seems like yesterday. Even today we are in disbelief at what happened, we will never know why. We miss your voice, your presence. We miss you so much, more and more every day. Now our thoughts turn to Nicolò, who will begin to face life in a positive way again. Stay close to him, he needs it a lot”, Pivetta’s maternal grandparents and parents wrote in a letter.
The boy goes two days a week to the Progetto 98 social cooperative in Somma Lombardo. He attends some recovery courses, physiotherapy sessions and some meetings with psychologists. He underwent delicate skull reconstruction surgery after his father smashed it with a hammer: “They told us that he will be able to return to his previous life. There’s no point in crying, we have to stand by him and help him. His father, in one night, destroyed everything“said the grandfather.
He himself wrote a letter to the murderer of his daughter and granddaughter asking to waive the appeal to the Court of Cassation. This will be discussed in the coming months. Alessandro Maja aims to recognize the inability to understand and want.
