(Adnkronos) – “I did not kill any of these patients. I was not the one who injected the heparin and I did not commit these horrendous acts of which they accused me. It is a wrong sentence, which comes at the end of a farce investigation “. Speaking to Adnkronos is Fausta Bonino, a former nurse at the Villamarina hospital in Piombino sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of the second appeal trial which was held in Florence. The accusation is that between September 2014 and September 2015 she caused the death of four patients hospitalized in the health facility where she worked by administering massive doses of heparin. “I am extremely disheartened, I absolutely did not expect such a sentence, after the appeal made in Florence I was honestly convinced that this ordeal would end. And instead I fell back into this nightmare”, she continues. The woman, who today found shelter in the affection of her family, finally speaks after what she defines as an “injustice”. “I’m sorry – repeats Fausta with a voice broken by suffering – but more than for me, for my children. They were convinced that it would all end, they have already spent 8 years in a nightmare, and they are experiencing this whole situation worse than me. Fortunately we have this 8-month-old grandson in the house and we move forward for him.” Solidarity, says the woman, also came from former work colleagues. “They were all very close to me, apart from two people – explains Fausta, after a pause – The colleagues all called me, most of them came to visit me, they are all on my side and they say it couldn’t have been me As in the whole city of Piombino, people love me and know that I am innocent.” Threats or insults – she explains – she has never suffered them. “Only in prison – you remember – as soon as they arrested me, it came out that I was crazy, that I had killed 14 people, and some inmates threatened me. But that was the end of it”. According to the perpetrators, the suspicious deaths in the Piombino hospital ended after the dismissal of the former nurse. “It’s not true – she replies – After I was no longer in the ward, the results of a patient’s examination were tampered with; only following this episode did the investigators decide to transfer the test tubes of the patient undergoing investigations, to for security reasons, in a refrigerator equipped with an alarm system they had been available to everyone, they wondered who could have taken them or not? Could it ever be thought that with the investigations underway I would have gone for heparin? I found myself trapped, it’s obvious. The investigations have always been one-way, directed towards a single objective, discarding all other possibilities. I can’t say why. but that’s how it happened.” “The relatives of the victims, poor things, in my opinion they will never have justice like I will ever have,” says Bonino. “In two cases I was acquitted, they were unable to prove my guilt: but who did they investigate those deaths? They continued to prosecute me for four other cases, and what about the others? This is an investigation full of contradictions The evidence exonerates me in everything, and yet here I am. The Nas investigated only me, excluding the other people. They found a bottle without fingerprints as big as I had ever seen. But according to them, a murderer leaves the bottle there and goes to hide the syringe? The investigations were done very badly, they have to prove that they have found the culprit, to keep people quiet. They don’t know how to get out of it, except by accusing me. They have washed their hands of it put a hand on their heart, so that they do not send an innocent person to serve a life sentence in the presence of all these very serious contradictions. In whose hands are we?”. And again: “The Court of Cassation? I’m also doubtful that they will accept my appeal. I’m scared. I no longer sleep at night – Fausta says crying – This is a story that cannot exist. You cannot give a person a life sentence innocent with investigations done badly by people who have no heart. They might be happy that an innocent person goes to prison, they would like the real culprit to go there. I ask everyone to turn against this system which is not good there is proof, nothing about me. Is it possible? What happened to me could happen to anyone. I was born to be a nurse. I enrolled in school at 16 Until 2013 I worked alone, I put pacemakers, patients recognized me outside. I had the gratitude of all of them, a passion for work that also inspired my son, who now works as an anesthesiologist what, what motivation would I have had? I missed my job a lot, at first. Now nine years have passed and with this process, after all this ordeal, no more”. (by Silvia Mancinelli) —[email protected] (Web Info)
