We continue to read it hundreds of times in the news of the newspapers, women killed and abused by their husbands and their companions, victims of physical and psychological violence. Ilaria Saladdino , 39 years old from Porto Torres , is a symbol of the barbarism of gender - based violence . Beaten to death and then struck with an ax by her ex-husband Fulvio Baule , from whom she was separating, unfortunately she ended up on the list of victims of gender-based violence.
On Friday 25 November at the Parodi Theater in Porto Torres, on the occasion of the international day against violence against women, her sister Giusy will be a guest at the event "Victims and Executioners. Words and Sounds", organized by the local Fidapa. Ilaria has become a symbol of this struggle, if only because she managed to survive the fury of a man who brutally killed her parents: Basilio Saladdino and Liliana Mancusa. The first died on 26 February last, under the blows of the ax thrown by his son-in-law who had mercilessly lashed out first against his mother-in-law, who died after 40 days in a coma, and then against his ex-wife, who is still struggling to return home and embrace his twin boys again. Children entrusted to Giusy who takes care of them together with her husband Franco, an immense love towards the little ones of just 20 months.
« Ilaria was scared, we did everything to be with her when her ex-husband brought her children home – says Giusy – we didn't trust him, we feared some reaction against my sister. I regret not having been present on the day of the tragedy".
In the house in via Principessa Giovanna, life goes by fast, without stopping. «The children are allowed to breathe in the scent of an essence that is so reminiscent of mum Ilaria - concludes Giusy - we do everything to make them feel good and I'm sure they will grow up in harmony, despite everything».
