00:00His name is Matteo, he is 19 years old, he recently got his driving license, after having spent the whole evening
00:07in a disco in Florence, he decides with his friends to reach Maremma to participate
00:13at a rave party, it's 7am, it's April 25th 2011, along the road a
00:21Carabinieri patrol stops him, Matteo drank that night, they do alcohol to him
00:26tests positive, the police tell him that his license will be taken away and confiscated
00:33the car, it is then that Matteo makes a crazy gesture and hits two policemen, one
00:40he will lose one eye, the other Antonio Santarelli will die after 13 months of coma, I went to
00:49Pitigliano, where the constable's widow lives. Hear what she tells us.
00:58It was April 25, 2011, it was Easter Monday and Antonio was changing shift that morning
01:05went on duty with the mobile radio, left a bit agitated because in those days
01:10in our area, in our peaceful land of Maremma, in the municipality of Sorano
01:14a rave party was taking place on private land, many people had gathered
01:20guys from all over Italy and obviously we know how raves go, drugs, highs, loud music
01:26and therefore so much fear in the territory.
01:30What's happening?
01:31Antonio stops a Clio, in this car there are three minors and an adult, Matteo
01:36Gorelli, takes the breathalyzer test and Matteo results positive to the breathalyzer test and so he communicates with him
01:43a lot of delicacy that will have to take away his license and seize the car of the
01:49mother. Matteo isolates himself from the group and sees a stick on the ground that had come off from his mother.
01:55fence. He takes this stick and strikes it in a very brutal manner, with a very strong blow
02:07Antonio in the head and Antonio immediately falls to the ground. Then with the same stick there is a
02:13fight with his colleague, Domenico Marino, who will also be injured and lose
02:18then an eye. The reports are stolen from the car, the hood is opened, in the hood
02:24they find the flashlight supplied to the Carabinieri and Antonio is repeatedly
02:30He hit her head with the flashlight. What had he done? Had he hit her on the head?
02:36Had he smashed his head? Cracked his skull, yes. Antonio had a hole in his head.
02:43The girl who was with them screams in despair, but they all get into the car and run away together.
02:50Then another patrol passes by there, because obviously there was a lot of excitement in those days,
02:54and finds the two colleagues on the ground and begins the chase. They see this car running away
02:59very quickly and proceed in pursuit. Then they will have to shoot first in the air and then the
03:06tires to make them stop. At that point they are stopped, arrested. What happens?
03:13It happens that the minors are obviously taken to a community, separated, and Matteo
03:20He was immediately arrested and taken to prison in Grosseto. His husband and his colleague
03:26How are they? They were in desperate conditions, especially Antonio. The Carabinieri who are
03:33Once they arrived they immediately alerted 118 and Antonio was operated on immediately
03:38and he was, alas, saved. Why does he say, alas? Because he began a long ordeal.
03:44What was her husband's condition? Antonio had fallen into an irreversible coma.
03:50What damage had he sustained? He had 90% brain damage. His colleague?
03:55Domenico Marino was also operated on with serious injuries to his face, maxillofacial,
04:01with significant lacerations to his eye and he lost an eye.
04:05Your husband falls into a coma. How long will he stay?
04:1013 months in a coma.
04:11How are you experiencing these months?
04:12At first with hope, because when Antonio was saved I believed in it.
04:17I hoped that even with the difficulties, with the years that it would take, but I would have
04:23I would have left my job and stayed by my side. And then the truth is, I wanted
04:29I only learned after two months. I didn't talk to the doctors, I didn't want to know anything.
04:35The pain was too much. When I was forced to talk to them, I had
04:43the awareness of the gravity of what he had.
04:46What did they tell her?
04:47They told me that Antonio would never wake up again and that he was a vegetable.
04:53The shock led me to a serious reactive depression. For me, in those months, it was...
05:01the desire to follow him, to die with him prevailed.
05:04During the time she is grieving, even though her husband is not dead,
05:12severe depression, do I get a letter?
05:15Yes, I received a letter from Irene, Irene Sisi, Matteo's mother.
05:20What does he write to her?
05:21Irene asks me, with very simple words, she asks me for forgiveness for Matteo's gesture and I
05:28he asks forgiveness for her too.
05:30How does he react?
05:31It was a huge sign for me. I really appreciated her reaching out.
05:38I really wanted to get in touch. Then the phone conversations began, and I invited her.
05:43even to come and see Antonio. Because I wanted Matteo to see him,
05:49But Matteo couldn't come to see him. Irene decided to be her son's eyes.
05:53and she came to visit Antonio to see him in that hospital bed.
05:57What did he tell her?
05:59That Antonio was no longer a name, but had become a flesh-and-blood person. How tender.
06:05She held his hand, talked to him, spoke to his soul and asked for his forgiveness.
06:12And he immediately told Matteo in prison, went to visit him and told him the truth.
06:17She told him the truth, even though it's difficult, but she said you have to know what you did.
06:23What does Matteo say to his mother?
06:25She promises him that she will pray for Antonio so that the Lord will free him from this nightmare.
06:32Is Matthew praying here?
06:34Even though he knew.
06:36What about death?
06:38His situation changed.
06:39What he asked of the Lord would make his position worse.
06:43Certain.
06:45When does her husband die?
06:46May 11, 2012.
07:07The day comes when she meets Matteo, that is, the person who killed her husband and also killed
07:16the father of her son.
07:18I meet him in a courtroom that day, so I can't speak to him.
07:23And this caused me great anger.
07:28I needed to communicate with him.
07:29I wanted to tell him certain things.
07:32And there was a lucky moment because at a certain point the judge left the courtroom.
07:38I should have gone out, but I'm not going out.
07:40And so I shout at Matteo, I call him by name and I tell him Matteo turn around please, look at me.
07:46And at that moment I vomited all the pain on him.
07:51What did he say to Matthew?
07:52I told him Matteo, you took everything from me.
07:55You took my life away, you took my dreams away, you took my hope away.
08:01And I talked about Antonio.
08:03You don't know what a wonderful person he was.
08:05You had no right to kill such a beautiful being.
08:09No one.
08:10Life is sacred Matthew.
08:11You shouldn't have done that.
08:12Can you also tell us who her husband was?
08:14Antonio was a very handsome man.
08:17Beautiful on the outside and beautiful on the inside.
08:18A pure soul, as I said he was almost an old man.
08:24Because today there aren't many people like him.
08:28The relationship with his son.
08:29The relationship between... was beautiful.
08:31How old was your son when your husband died?
08:35It was a two-edged love, I called it.
08:37They were just head over heels for each other.
08:39And consider that when Nicolò was sick, he woke up at night and didn't call for mom, but for dad.
08:44We come to the day of sentencing, when Matteo is condemned.
08:51What happens that day?
08:52I expected a different punishment for Matteo, because everything seemed to be going in a different direction.
08:58I didn't expect life imprisonment.
09:00The prosecutor had asked for 20 years.
09:03Matteo had been placed under house arrest, in a community, by Dommazzi, precisely to help him recover.
09:08So I didn't think of such a severe sentence.
09:10And it shocks me, when I hear the word life imprisonment mentioned, I feel sick.
09:14Was your son present?
09:16Nicolò was not present.
09:17When did you find out?
09:19He said it was the right punishment, that he deserved it.
09:21But you didn't share the same opinion?
09:23Ninth.
09:24I felt that Antonio had died for nothing.
09:28Because Antonio, when he stopped Matteo, wanted to save his life.
09:33No?
09:33He believed in this.
09:35I'm giving you a punishment so that you understand that this is not the right path.
09:40And he died for him in the end.
09:41So a definitive sentence like life imprisonment, throwing away the key, was to let Antonio die
09:48one more time.
09:49At this point, does something special, something extraordinary begin?
09:55It was a January morning, January 28, 2013.
09:58I'm leaving with some friends who are accompanying me.
10:01We set off on a very cold morning.
10:03There was even snow.
10:04I arrived in Milan around 10, and he was waiting for me.
10:09Matteo hadn't slept all night and I honestly hadn't rested either.
10:15We were both embarrassed.
10:19But I have always believed that to dissolve embarrassment there is a very good thing, which helps
10:25so much, that is the hug.
10:26And when I found him in front of me, without speaking, we hugged and held each other tight
10:32and we cried together.
10:33What did Matteo tell her about the moment her husband actually ended up
10:41to live, when Matthew hit him?
10:45I wasn't interested in the procedural details.
10:47I was interested in...
10:48No, I'm talking about what happened that day.
10:50Yes, I was interested in knowing from Matteo how Antonio was at that moment.
10:54And I had confirmation of Antonio's beauty.
10:57This was what interested me.
10:58What did he tell me?
10:58He passed it on to him... he was worrying about him, he was telling Matteo not to worry,
11:03He invited him to take a walk, to calm down, he told him nothing was happening.
11:08He wanted to teach him something that day and it was important for me to have a confirmation of that.
11:12This.
11:13And faced with her husband's very careful behavior towards Matteo, Matteo
11:20he takes a stick, hits him on the head and then finishes him off with a flashlight.
11:24Matteo has a personality disorder.
11:26Who told him?
11:28The appraisals.
11:29He didn't know he had it.
11:31Matteo is borderline.
11:32She asked him why he behaved like that that day, or what his problems were.
11:36which they then caused.
11:37Matteo was full of pain, he was angry with life.
11:40Due to... probably his parents' separation, his grandfather's death.
11:45He loses his grandfather and his mother and father separate.
11:49These are Matthew's dramas, aren't they?
11:53Yes.
11:53These are the dramas of Matthew.
11:55She has forgiven this person and is even helping him.
12:00Because I didn't stop at this story, I went further.
12:03What did he discover?
12:05I discover what Matteo is, I discover his depths, I discover his sensitivity and his
12:10his progress.
12:11I've known Matteo for three years now and I can see the changes in him.
12:14Matteo was first sentenced to life imprisonment, then...
12:18In the second instance he was given a sentence of twenty years and then it was confirmed in
12:23Cassation.
12:24What are you and Matteo's mom doing?
12:27Matteo's mother and I have become great friends.
12:31Her husband was a carabiniere.
12:33Would he have shared what she is doing now?
12:38I can't say that Antonio Carabiniere would have shared it, because to get to do these things
12:44choices you have to go through suffering, through pain, which I know very well,
12:51cross it and move on.
12:53How old is Matteo now?
12:55He's 23 now.
12:56Your son Niccolò?
12:57He's 17.
12:58Does Niccolò want to meet him?
13:00No.
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