Marco Paolini accident: woman dead / “Nothing is as before” children victim “no forgiveness”

Marco Paolini accident: sentence negotiated to one year of imprisonment

July 17, 2018 for the actor Marco Paolini it will be a difficult date to forget. Paolini was aboard his vehicle, on the A4 Milan-Venice near Verona, when he violently collided with a car driven by two women. A crash, one of them, the 53 year old Alessandra Lighezzuolo, he lost his life. Almost a year after the tragedy, which culminated on a legal level with a plea bargain for one year in prison for road murder, Paolini decided to break the silence and talk about what happened for the first time in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Since then, the actor and director has lived with the burden of causing irreparable loss.

In retracing the moments before the accident, Marco Paolini had confided that he had had to deal with a bad cough (which he later discovered was an octopus) which also accompanied him during the journey back home, after one of his shows.: “There was a lot of traffic. Impossible to run. She went to the column. I was traveling in the middle lane. At one point I had a coughing fit again. And there, as I was able to see in the frames of a video of the fixed cameras of Autostrade, I moved into the right lane. And all of a sudden I saw myself in the car of Alessandra Lighezzolo and Anna Tovo “. The two women were traveling aboard a 500, while the actor drove a station wagon: “I rammed her. And I saw her fly down the street below, on the ring road. Behind a hedge. Reversed. Fortunately, the traffic below stopped almost immediately. Without further tragedies. We were on an emergency lay-by. I stopped, I gave the alarm “.

Marco Paolini, victim family does not forgive him

In the first moments after the accident that involved Marco Paolini, it was said that he had his cell phone in his hand, but the actor categorically denied it, to the point of explaining that he had promptly delivered his device to the street. To make it “Furious”he explained in the interview, was the fact that he realized he hadn’t done anything unlike the two people in the car: “It was unfair. Frightening”, he said. Eleven months after the tragedy, Paolini admitted that he had not yet managed to forgive himself.

And not to forgive him, at least not after the interview, were also the victim’s widower and his children. Always the Corriere had also intervened Massimo Meggiolarohusband of Alessandra died in the accident: “I would have preferred silence. If Paolini feels capable of moving forward, he should have done so without being interviewed. I would have preferred that he first clarify with us, that he speak to us “. And about the alleged forgiveness he had said: “No, not now, he took everything away from us, but I don’t rule out that over time I might be able to forgive him”. The harder the children: “Forgive him? He doesn’t talk about it, we don’t even know if we’ll want to meet him. He took away our mother, the woman of our life, she is nothing like before now. You have to live it on your own skin to understand “. “Nothing is the same as before” Paolini also said so in his interview.

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Marco Paolini accident: woman dead / “Nothing is as before” children victim “no forgiveness”