Daniela Zurria: “Accept that my daughter Sofia was killed by her ex, the same boy I welcomed at home for 4 years, was hell”

Sofia Castelli she died at 20on July 29, 2023, killed by ex -boyfriend Zakaria Atqaoui, who was sentenced to 24 years of imprisonment for his femicide. Sofia always smiled, that evening she had gone to the disco with her friends. She waited for her hidden in her bedroom closet and when she fell asleep, she left the closet and hit her with a knifeor. He killed her like this as he slept. Because Sofia, for him, was too free a woman. In the new episode of the podcast of Vanity Fair What remains. For Giulia, for all, To tell who Sofia was his mother, Daniela Zurria.

«I found myself having to collect the shards of a lifetime but it is clearly impossible to do it. But one tries for those who remain, because I still have another child and because there are many people who love me. At a certain point one perhaps unconsciously decides, either I die with my daughter or continue to live for her too ». Daniela Zurria has also chosen to live for her daughter Sofia, even if the pain she feels never leaves her and even if it seems impossible to find meaning to her existence when you survive a daughter.

Sofia Castelli

«After 22 months, I still can’t get closer to what happened because the survival instinct makes you remove a pain that is too big. I know it is difficult to understand it, but you cannot completely get to the awareness of what happened, even after all this time because it is too big ». When Sofia was killed by her ex -boyfriend, her parents were in Sardinia. She had spent the night at the disco and she had returned home with her friend Aurora, who slept not far from her.

«We knew him well and we also loved him and this was also the great pain. However, we lost two people of our life in a moment. I made a lot of effort to elaborate the fact that I had to go from the loving a person to hate it because I could not realize me, I just couldn’t realize what had happened, it was too big. It was too big ».

The podcast What remains. For Giulia, for all It is available on the main listening platforms.

Source: Vanity Fair

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