«I would have liked to take my father’s or my mother’s hands and say to them: “I love you”… But unfortunately I never managed to do that». This is how Pietro Maso, now 50 years old, speaks today about his parents, that more than 30 years have passed since that April 17, 1991, when he was helped with frightening coldness and cruelty by three friends, one of whom was still a minor , he killed her home in Montecchia di Crosara to get rich with her money. “That I never told my parents ‘I love you’, ‘I need you’ is something I miss now, I suffer from that, I miss being able to tell people, especially my parents, that I need them… “.
The confession
It’s a Pietro Maso you don’t expect, the one who opens the doors of his heart by recounting “my inner torments” while announcing “that will be the last interview I have about the murder of my father and give to my mother”. Thirty years after massacring her for the inheritance, Maso admits that he misses her: “Because – he explains to the show Cronache Criminali, hosted by Giancarlo De Cataldo on Rai1 – life itself is difficult and I too am comforted must become to give my best values and my feelings. That’s why I miss my parents humanly, because I would like to have physical contact with them, but spiritually I feel that they are close to me and that’s very nice for me.” It’s difficult, almost impossible, to relate him to the contemptuous and arrogant boy man who “when they rejected me at seminary in 1991, decided to become like Don Johnson.”
The boy then
Pietro, then twenty, wanted to emulate the famous Miami Vice interpreter, handsome, glamorous, at the wheel of a flaming white Ferrari: «I was hired in a supermarket, I could steal while balancing the bills ». After all, the dominant myths of the time were “success, money, material goods”. Now, however, Maso is a melancholic-eyed fifty-year-old who begs to be “forgotten for my dramatic past” and who, on his path of redevelopment, has decided to “devote my life to supporting the reintegration of prisoners into society”. He himself says it better: “Today’s Pietro is struggling because I have a past of suffering. This is the last interview I will give, after being released from prison I have given several, also to publicly order Since then my path of change has been very slow, on the day of my sentence I was thinking of finishing it but the next day I put my shoes on and chose to live to be a better person, me decided to face the past to understand because of what I had done… ».
change
Today’s Peter declares himself to be “different” and reveals: “I gained what I am now through suffering, through loneliness, through experiencing emotions and not being able to express them. When I’ve managed to get this far, I tell myself I can go further. Now I’m trying to collect real things from life, I used to collect trivial things, a better car, an extra dress, more money… now the research is going in a different direction instead, I’m looking for the exact opposite compared to before . Within me – Maso admits publicly – I have a weight that I carry within me, and that is the absence of my parents. On the contrary, I don’t feel the weight of prison, it seems to me that one day I was in a cell, not 22 years, I don’t feel like I was deprived of the opportunity to go out for so long”. On the other Page weighs the remorse of the Veronese: «If I could, I would just like to go back to give life to my parents again, from now on I want to be forgotten, I would like to have this small space that allows me this thing which is very important to me, I have devoted myself, along with other people, to the work and social rehabilitation of prisoners who are being served a just sentence, and when I hear their stories, I feel that they are receiving little have, but I received too much compared to what I gave … Sorry if I entered your life once again – Maso says goodbye – I hope it will be the last ».
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November 16, 2022 (Change November 16, 2022 | 09:44)
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