Pierina Buffon's daughter, 'we are not asking for revenge, but justice'

CASSANO MAGNAGO, 30 OCT - "We are not asking for revenge.

We ask for truth, respect and justice for our mother. And we ask that, as justice takes its course, we be given the space to simply be what we are: the children who mourn their mothers." This is the appeal of Katia Ruocco, daughter of Pierina Buffon, 69 years old, who died on 16 October in Cassano Magnago (Varese) in a head-on collision with the car driven by her ex-partner Fulvio Ielmini, 73 years old, arrested on charges of aggravated femicide and taken to the Busto Arsizio prison.

Katia Ruocco, supported by the lawyers Cinzia Botta and Daniela Uselli who assist her and four of her five brothers, wanted to clarify the family's position regarding the affair and the ongoing investigations to reconstruct the circumstances of her mother's death. Danny Ruocco, Buffon's sixth son, is not involved in the legal assistance. "We lost our mother tragically and suddenly and found ourselves dealing with grief that is difficult even to explain in words.

For many, Pierina Buffon is today the name of a news story - continued her daughter - For us she was, and is, our mother: a woman, a mother, a grandmother, with her affections, her desires and the right to live peacefully".

In his speech Ruocco also recalled what happened after his mother's decision, last June, to interrupt the relationship with Ielmini, which lasted about ten years.

Two warnings and a complaint presented by Buffon against his ex-partner had reportedly revealed persecutory and threatening behavior on the part of the man. "Our mother had the right to freely make her own choices, to interrupt a relationship and to decide about her own future, without having to live in fear and without having to suffer the consequences. She had the right to freely decide about her own love life and to continue to live peacefully. No woman should ever feel deprived of the freedom to choose about her own life and her own feelings. It is the memory of her dignity and her freedom that we want to cherish", added Katia Ruocco.