Milan, May 13 (LaPresse) – "Guilt is something you carry with you forever. There is nothing in my life that doesn't constantly take me back there, to my sister who was killed." This is what Chiara Tramontano, the sister of Giulia Tramontano, said in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Giulia was killed by her partner Alessandro Impagnatiello on May 27, 2023, while she was seven months pregnant with Thiago, who was due to be born in July.
Chiara Tramontano, 28, a researcher in the Netherlands, has written a book titled Non smetterò mai di cercarti – Ogni parola è un passo verso di te, Giulia (I Will Never Stop Looking for You – Every Word Is a Step Towards You, Giulia), which is being released today by Cairo Editore.
"The ghost of guilt is different for each of us, but it visits all of us in turn," she recalls. "Giulia and I had argued in the last month. We hadn't spoken since she told me she was going to Ibiza with Alessandro. They were coming out of a period of conflict; Giulia had confided in me and knew that there was nothing worth saving in that relationship. But she accepted the trip to 'patch things up,' without consulting me. I got angry, and she replied that her life was hers."
Chiara Tramontano says she only understood "now" that Alessandro Impagnatiello, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, "was evil." "Now I know that, when we last saw each other for pizza in March, he had already started poisoning my sister: he ate next to my father while he was trying to kill his daughter and the baby she was expecting. To me, he is an immoral being, don’t call him a human being."
Seeing Impagnatiello at every hearing "just a step away from us" was the hardest part of the first-degree trial. "If I can make an appeal, I would like murderers not to be allowed to participate in the trials," she added.