" I still have nightmares about that morning. I was outside the store throwing away some things and I saw him in front of me. He asked me if I still had a boyfriend. I told him to mind his own business and that if he wanted to buy something he could come in, otherwise he had to leave."

This is what Martina Voce, who survived 30 stab wounds inflicted on December 22 by her Norwegian ex-boyfriend in Oslo, told La Repubblica.

"I turned around and went inside. At the height of the cash registers he stabbed me from behind. I walked forward and he hit me again, with a large military knife. A lady witnessed the scene and started screaming ."

At that point Martina turned around: «And he started attacking me from the front. I tried to run away and he hit me again from behind. In the back and on the nape of the neck. He was silent. But with a smile plastered on his face. I fell in my own blood. Luckily my boyfriend arrived and took him off me - she continues her story - I tried to crawl away, but he wriggled free and came back to me. Lying down, I kept him at a distance using my legs, while he tried to hit me again. They stopped him by stabbing him. The paramedics arrived a minute later. While they were taking me away I was convinced that I wouldn't make it ».

He "messaged me, he even created a fake account. And about ten days before attacking me he invited me to see a cat he had adopted. After the arrest the police told me that there was no trace of the cat in the house. Maybe it was an excuse, a trap. There he would have succeeded in killing me. I didn't love him anymore. We had ended things peacefully."

Femicides? "In Italy they happen every day. Here in Norway, however, they are rare events. I already wanted to stay in Norway, this makes me want to stay here even more. Oslo is a safe place ."