"It's not easy to start living again after looking death in the face but I'm giving it my all. It's been six very hard 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 that Amanda had reported for stalking and persecutory acts after his life had 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 officers at the police station because she had noticed that Zonza was following her: the dramatic images captured by the camera and the desperate call for help received on the phone did not prevent the tragic crash that sent Amanda to the hospital in very serious conditions, but they did ensure that the man, also injured, was arrested immediately after the accident. In his car, despite having tried to hide it from the officers, a hammer was also found. Two days ago an expert said that Zonza, for whom his lawyers have requested a psychiatric evaluation as part of the trial for the crime of stalking, is not incapable of understanding and willing and this conclusion could be decisive when it comes to deciding whether to send him to trial for the attempted murder hypothesis.
The treatments
Amanda is clearly informed of the evolution of the legal case for which she is being followed by lawyers Marco Aste and Maria Cristina Lindiri, "but while it is still ongoing I prefer not to express any comment - she begins - there will be time and ways to talk about it, now I have to think about my health". It has not been an easy six months: "Some saint protected me because in that crash I could have died - she says - however I have suffered very serious injuries and fractures for which I have undergone several surgical operations and a long physiotherapy, still ongoing, which runs parallel to the analysis sessions with which I am trying to metabolise the trauma I have suffered. Luckily I have many people around me who love me, first and foremost my partner and my family and then my friends and precious work colleagues".
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 that have moved me and have helped me never to give up in these months in which moments of despair have not been lacking - she says - many have also arrived from the customers of the shopping center where I work and where my colleagues have received messages of affection to forward to me for months". With her colleagues at the Conad center in Carbonia Amanda there was already a precious friendship that this tragedy has strengthened even more: "To allow me to continue to treat myself, now that I have used up the months of sick leave available but still have a long therapeutic path ahead of me, they donated part of their holidays to me - she says - a very important gesture that binds me inextricably to each of them, my gratitude is enormous and I hope with all my heart to be able to return to them, rediscovering the daily routine and serenity that I have lost, leaving this terrible nightmare behind me".