Seventeen stab wounds did not kill her. But they forced her to wake up in a nightmare worse than death: living without Mirko Farci, her son, who gave his life to protect her. It was May 11, 2021. Yesterday, March 12, the Court of Cassation confirmed the life sentence for her murderer, Masih Shahid . But for Paola Piras the trial is not over yet. Not the one in court, but the one of public pillory.
Social media has no mercy: "He is unforgivable... But the mother also has a percentage of blame. In my opinion, if she has realized, she will not sleep for remorse", someone writes. A comment as sharp as a blade has reopened wounds that have never healed . As if the pain were not enough, as if mourning also had to be justified.
Paola Piras responds with anger and dignity: "I realized, don't worry" and after a dry, harsh insult, full of pain. She is not only a woman whose son was killed, but she is also a survivor of a femicide. And today while she lives with her pain, she continues to defend herself from the verbal violence that was unleashed on social media just for having loved the wrong man.
