“Widow of Rosario Terror Attack Victim Shares Thoughts on Sentencing and Justice”

On October 31, 2017, a terrorist attack on one of the busiest bicycle paths and tourist spots in New York (United States) claimed the lives of five friends from Rosario. In May of this year, the material author of the act, Sayfullo Saipov, was sentenced to ten life sentences plus 260 years in prison. the word of Vera Dargoltz, widow of Hernán Ferruccione of the fatal victims: what did he feel when he was in the place, what did he say to the Uzbek face to face and told whether or not he was satisfied with the sentence.

“Justice would have been if this had not happened”he said in dialogue with Radiopolis (Radio2). In that same story, he pointed out the prevention policies of the United States in the face of terrorist attacks: “How can it be that it can’t be prevented?”.

He also recalled what it was like to go to the scene and what the feelings were: “Knowing the place was complicated. But I took the mate, something we shared together, and I sat in a corner to drink as if I were with him.

Regarding the hearings, he said that he was in all of them and maintained that each one had its particularities. “The first was the stage of guilt, which for me was the most important. The second, the sentencing stage. While the third was the sentence signed by the judge and we could tell Saipov what we wanted”.

“I told him what it was, what got us out (by Hernán). I showed him a photo and told him that they were not names and surnames, they were people with projects and desires. Also I told him that he took me away from the person who loved me the most. That from everything he took, there was one thing that he did not have and will never have, which is happiness. Because Hernán was a happy person and that’s how he died. Those beings, the terrorists, do not know what happiness is.”, he expanded.

The meaning of the word justice. “What I particularly wanted within this process was this, a life sentence. You can take it as justice,” she recounted. Furthermore, he added why: “These people feed on death. What is the worst punishment you can give him? Life. There is no 2×1 there, nothing. Saipov is locked in the cell for 22, 23 hours”.