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“Now I can relax.” Gessica Notaro commented on the sentence of the ex-boyfriend Edson Tavares, accused of having persecuted and assaulted her, disfiguring her with acid. The verdict issued by the Bologna Court of Appeal in 2018 has been confirmed: the Supreme Court has established that Tavares must serve fifteen years, five months and twenty days in prison.
It was January 10, 2017 when Gessica was attacked by her ex-boyfriend under her house in Rimini. That night the Notaro was victim of a terrible ambush that changed his existence forever. “I saw him, I saw Eddy holding a plastic bottle, he was dressed in black,” Gessica will say, shortly after the hospitalization. He didn’t say a word, he threw a liquid at me and ran away. I ran after him a few meters, screaming in pain, my face burned and my vision blurred more and more ”.
Three years have passed since then and Gessica has never stopped fighting, for herself and other women, sure she would. had justice sooner or later. And that day has finally arrived, as the singer explained to Ansa. “It is a finished story, now maybe I can relax – he said – […] I am very happy, I did well to place my trust in the judiciary that has not betrayed me. […] I have to thank my lawyers, Fiorenzo and Alberto Alessi, who have done an excellent job. For four years, although I was able to show anger, I have always been a lady and have defended her right to defend herself. Now I can say that he is guilty, up to the third degree. “
The second instance judges had defined acid assault as the “plastic representation of a thoughtful and firm will to punish the victim forever, depriving her not only of her special beauty, but of her own identity, to annul her in the eyes of anyone, not being able to” possess her. “The sentence also confirmed the expulsion from Italy of Tavares at the end of the sentence and the compensation of Gessica.To defend him the lawyers Fiorenzo and Alberto Alessi, flanked by the Mariposa association, which has always fought against violence against women, with the lawyer Elena Fabbri.
Brave and incredibly strongImmediately after the attack, Gessica had begun her battle, resuming life, despite the tragedy and recovering, step by step, her existence. An example for many women who, like her, continue to fight against the violence of men who do not know how to love.
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