«It’s not easy to start living again after staring death in the face but I’m doing my best. It’s been a very tough six months and the healing process isn’t over yet but I’m working hard to get my life back.” Six months have passed since Amanda Gallus, a forty-five year old from Carbonia, risked dying in a terrible head-on collision. It wasn’t a generic road accident: on board the car that hit her small car was Alessio Zonza, the 53-year-old man whom Amanda had reported for stalking and persecution after his life had now become a daily nightmare .
The accident
In Amanda’s car there was a camera that the woman had placed for her protection and that afternoon she was on the phone with the police officers because she had realized that Zonza was following her: the dramatic images immortalized by the camera and the desperate request of help gathered on the phone did not prevent the tragic crash that landed Amanda in hospital in very serious conditions, but they ensured that the man, who was also injured, was arrested immediately after the accident. A hammer was also found in his car, although he tried to hide it from the officers. Two days ago an expert said that Zonza, for whom his defenders have requested a psychiatric evaluation in the context of the trial for the crime of stalking, is not incapable of understanding and will and this conclusion could be decisive when a decision will have to be made to commit him to trial on the hypothesis of attempted murder.
The cure
Amanda is clearly informed of the evolution of the legal matter for which she is followed by the lawyers Marco Aste and Maria Cristina Lindiri, «but while it is still ongoing I prefer not to express any comments – she begins – there will be time and opportunity to talk about it, now I have to think to my health.” They were not easy six months: «Some saint protected me because in that crash I could have died – she says – however I suffered very serious injuries and fractures for which I was subjected to several surgeries and long physiotherapy, still ongoing, which goes in parallel with the analysis sessions with which I try to metabolize the trauma I have suffered. Luckily I have many people around me who love me, first of all my partner and my family and then my friends and precious work companions.”
Solidarity
Since the day of the accident, Amanda has been overwhelmed by a wave of solidarity and affection from the community of Carbonia and beyond: «I have received thousands of messages of good wishes and closeness which have moved me and have helped me to never give up on these months in which there have been moments of discouragement – he states – many have also come from customers of the shopping center where I work and where for months my colleagues have received messages of affection to forward to me”. Amanda already had a precious friendship with her colleagues at the Conad center in Carbonia, which this drama has strengthened even more: «To allow me to continue treatment, now that I have exhausted the available months of illness but have still facing a long therapeutic journey, they donated part of their holidays to me – he says – a very important gesture that binds me inextricably to each of them, my gratitude is very great and I hope with all my heart to be able to return to them, finding the everyday life and the serenity that I lost, leaving this terrible nightmare behind me.”
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