Almost by a miracle, she was left unharmed when, at the Brussels-Zaventem airport, ISIS carried out an attack by detonating two bombs and killing 16 people (plus the two terrorists). She, Shanti De Corte , although alive, was probably dead along with many of her friends who were with her that day, March 22, 2016, ready to leave for Rome to celebrate the end of high school studies.
At 7.58 the first detonation ( PHOTOS ), with the bomb placed a few meters from the girl. Around the total devastation but Shanti - who lived in Antwerp, Belgium - practically nothing had been done.
In the list of victims of the massacre there is also the name of Jennifer Scintu , origins in Ales but born and raised in Germany, who was with her husband at the airport: they were going to New York to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
Shanti's mind and heart never got over that episode . Since then, she has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals many times, sexually abused , filled with antidepressants and psychiatric drugs.
A few months ago the most difficult choice, that of asking for euthanasia , completed on 7 May. At 23 years old. Surrounded by her parents, she felt "freed" from her nightmares.
"I laughed and cried until the last day," he wrote on his Facebook profile. " Now I'm leaving in peace. Know that I already miss you ."
Shanti's case is being talked about again now after a famous Belgian neurologist exposed his criticisms of the granting of euthanasia. The federal commission responsible for monitoring the practice, however, closed the discussion: the law - he argued - was fully respected and the girl "was in such a state of mental suffering that her request was logically accepted".
(Unioneonline / ss)
