if it were not for the determination of this Sardinian girl

May 7, 2014 - Those moments are told by his face, his wounds and the resistance in the voice when he relates the details recorded in the memory of the attempted murder immediately. Valentina Pitzalis was only 27 years old when her husband, from whom she had lived apart for more than a year, asked her for a meeting to resolve a bureaucratic issue. Vale had to give him a document.
To him, who never calls by name. The man he had married after just three months and who disfigured her in an attempt to assassinate her. You could also call this femicide, if it were not for the determination of this Sardinian girl from Carbonia who was able to defend herself as she could from the fire, from the kerosene.



At first, as she herself says, she had believed that her ex-husband on that distant day of 2011 had sought death to be reunited with her in an eternal elsewhere. Instead, according to what was read later, his death was completely accidental considering what emerged from the investigation: the flames that surrounded Valentina had enveloped him and led to a horrible end.

The present of Valentina, today, after 23 surgeries, the amputation of a hand and part of the arm and devastating consequences is of a courageous woman who wrote a book, Nobody can take off your smile (Mondadori), and that meets ordinary people to express your testimony. For her there is a group on Facebook, A smile for Vale after prom dresses, which documents her meetings and her tenacity to recover a life. As happened last night plus size cocktail dress, at Porta a Porta. He put on a nice suit, fixed the fuchsia tuft and unlined his smile, "The one thing he did not take away from me," said Vale.