Raul Gazolla says he did not forgive Daniella Perez’s killers

Actor Raul Gazolla, 66, recalled the death of his ex-wife, actress Daniella Perez, murdered in December 1992, and said he did not forgive the perpetrators of the crime. The daughter of author Gloria Perez was killed by actor Guilherme de Pádua and his wife at the time, Paula Thomaz.

“This year marks 30 years since Dani’s murder. We get over a death by accident, a death from illness, we endure the death of a loved one… But when it’s murder… I can live with it, but overcoming is another thing,” he said in an interview with the Connect Cast YouTube channel.

“I’m not spiritually evolved to the point of forgiving. As Gloria says [Perez], ‘not even Jesus forgave’. Will I forgive? Who am I to lose? The guy stabs my wife 18 times and I’m going to forgive him? Soon after, it’s free”, continued the artist.

Gazolla also said that the version of Guilherme de Padua, who claimed to be having an affair with the actress, is not true. “The killer says he had an affair with Dani and that it was a crime of passion, but it was proven that he never had an affair with her. That was never true,” he added.

The artist says he does not agree that the perpetrators of the crime are free, and he also recalled that Paula Thomaz changed her name after the case and graduated in Law from the same college as Daniella. “A murderer is a murderer, although the law says they have a clean record, they will always be murderers,” he added.

At the time of the crime, the court ordered Guilherme and Paula to pay R$480,000 to Gloria Perez. “They have now been sentenced to pay a fine for Dani’s murder. But there is no money that pays a tear that Gloria and I spent,” she recalled.

REMEMBER THE CASE

Daniella was doing her third soap opera when she was killed by actor Guilherme de Pádua, her romantic partner in the plot, and his then wife, Paula Thomaz. The two ambushed the actress and killed her with scissors, on December 28, 1992, when Daniella was 22 years old.

The crime shocked Brazil, and Guilherme de Pádua and Paula Thomaz were convicted of first-degree murder after five years. The couple was due to serve the sentence of 19 years in prison – which was reduced and extinguished ahead of schedule. In 2006, in an interview with leafGuilherme said that, even though he had been free for seven years, he felt trapped.

“I’m still in prison. I was a kind of example of justice overexposed by the media, in a country full of impunity. The truth is that I did silly things, but I’m harmless, and that’s why people aren’t afraid to attack me in the street. spit in my face, in a mall,” said Padua.

In 2017, Guilherme de Pádua became pastor of the evangelical church in Belo Horizonte. The former actor converted to religion in 2002, a year after he was released from prison where he was serving time for Daniella’s murder.