“Today I feel justice and I feel calm. The feeling of declaring was the same as today, that I have for the first time when speaking with the media,” said Lina Ferruchi, who spoke in first person with Two Peak Hours (Radio 2), before the memory of his father Hernán, one of the fatalities in the terrorist attack in New York where five people from Rosario died in 2017.
“I contributed what I could. We prepared for a long time with the prosecutors at that time. Nobody knew what I was thinking from another angle. First my mother testifies and they put me in a room inside the court and I had neither a cell phone nor clock. I didn’t know if it had been five minutes or an hour,” began Lina, who is now 20 years old.
“All the time I thought and thought because I was afraid of not knowing what to answer or not being able to speak. They showed me some photos and I had to answer specific questions, such as vacation photos with my dad,” he explained about his moment in the statement in the trial against the terrorist Sayfullo Saipov.
In May of this year, the material author of the act, Sayfullo Saipov, he was sentenced to ten life sentences plus 260 years in prison.
“It never seemed right to me to go back to the same as what they did to me. It does not add anything to me that the other person suffers because I feel that I am going back to the same thing. When he was found guilty, I felt less weight of judgment. What I wanted was for him to plead guilty. I knew that I was not going to regret it, but I didn’t feel the need to wish someone dead. In this case, it is a worse punishment to live locked up all your life than to die from an injection and never have thought about what you did.”
“Before, my dad took me everywhere because my mom didn’t drive and before she didn’t drive alone. Now she goes everywhere alone and it’s very different. I had to be there for my sister, who was 11 years old at the time, and a 15-year-old girl. years like me at that time, I didn’t think about ISIS (Islamic State), at that time I had a 15th birthday or thinking about being with my classmates laughing,” Lina recalled.
“Today I feel justice and for me he preferred life imprisonment, although it took a long time, five and a half years. Now I am calm. Before, I thought I would study architecture like my dad. He would stay making technical drawings for me so that I could sleep more. Now I am very interested in what trauma is and why we react when someone is suddenly taken from us For example, why did my friend leave and I didn’t and I said that I’m going to study something with psychiatry and I decided on psychology,” Lina concluded.
2023-05-27 19:05:00
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