Eighteen years after the disappearance of Denise Pipitone , the little girl taken away from her grandmother's house on the morning of 1 September 2004 from Mazara De Vallo, her mother Piera Maggio will be in Cagliari to tell, interviewed by Simona De Francisci , the stages of a painful affair that neither the investigation, nor the trial, nor the media attention, nor the sightings that have followed without stopping have brought to a conclusion nor returned Denise to her family.

The appointment, as part of the sixteenth edition of the Alziator Prize , is for Saturday 26 November , at 5 pm , in the Giorgio Pisano hall of L'Unione Sarda .

“How much love has been taken away from me. How much love has been taken away from you. I think of you every day, in the morning, in the evening, during the day. I swear to myself that I will not stop, I will keep looking for you and I will keep fighting for truth and justice. As long as I breathe, I hope. With all my strength» the words of Piera Maggio, who entrusted her dramatic story to the pages of the book " Denise, with all my strength ", published by Piemme .

A volume that tells the stages of a life marked by the anguish of absence and at the same time by an incessant battle for the truth . But it is also the first-person account of Piera's desire for freedom and independence , a girl who became a woman in a Sicily still steeped in an antiquated and judgmental mentality. Because of her desire to go against the tide, choosing who to love beyond social conditioning, in addition to having her daughter kidnapped, she had to suffer the humiliation of being blamed. But her struggle doesn't stop, and she continues to represent an example of courage and determination dictated by maternal love.

Anyone who has followed Denise's story knows all the plots that followed from the beginning of the investigation to the end of the trial which declared innocent , due to lack of evidence, the main defendant Jessica Pulizzi , daughter of Anna Corona and Pietro Pulizzi, natural father of Denise, definitively acquitted by the Cassation in 2017.

In the tangled affair also the Sardinian magistrate Maria Angioni , who held the position of Public Prosecutor in Marsala at the time of the events, ended up in the spotlight after having denounced a series of alleged misdirections and inefficiencies in the investigations carried out by the investigators, statements to which match was found.

For the meeting in Cagliari, free admission with limited places .

(Unioneonline)

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