Sanremo 2022, Martina Pigliapoco, the heroine carabiniere who saved a woman who wanted to commit suicide

Martina Pigliapoco on 4 October 2021 saved a woman who wanted to commit suicide. Sergio Mattarella then made her a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. And now Amadeus wanted it on the Sanremo 2022 stage.

In service at the San Vito di Cadore station, in the province of Bellone, the 26-year-old had been called to intervene on a bridge in Perarolo, where a woman threatened to throw herself into the void. Upon his arrival, Martina Pigliapoco had found the woman on the other side of the railing. She sat at a distance, with the aim of talking to her. Their dialogue lasted for over 3 hours. Eventually, Martina managed to persuade the woman to abandon the idea of ​​taking her own life.

SANREMO, ITALY – FEBRUARY 03: Martina Pigliapoco attends the 72nd Sanremo Music Festival 2022 at Teatro Ariston on February 03, 2022 in Sanremo, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli / Daniele Venturelli / Getty Images)Daniele Venturelli

“The woman just let me get closer, so I thought I’d sit down”, he said, “I don’t know why, my head and my heart acted alone and I went along with my instincts.” And again: «He gave me fragmentary information, he didn’t look at me, he stammered, he didn’t explain to me why he was there. She told me about the children and I told her to imagine that I was her fourth daughter. In the end he jumped over and at that point we hugged each other and we burst into tears “.

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