Tavares will also pay damages of 230,000 euros to Notaro.
Notaro, 27, is a former Miss Italy finalist and model who works with sea lions and dolphins at an aquarium in Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast.
“Despite the harm that he did me, he’s a person I was very much in love with, whom I really loved, and I can't quite hate him, but I can’t forgive him, I won't forgive him,” Notaro said of her attacker.
“What remains is just indifference.”
Two weeks after Tavares threw acid on her face, Notaro posted a photo on Facebook to thank those who had supported her during those difficult days.
The photo showed her hands forming a heart shape and bandages covering her burnt and disfigured face.
“It is hard but I will make it with your help. I love you,” she wrote.
"Gessica would like to dedicate this heart to the doctors, nurses and all the staff of the Bufalini hospital in Cesena, and thank once again all the friends and people who send her greetings every day and are standing by her side," her agent, Mauro Catalini, added to the post.
In less than 24 hours, Notaro’s post received over 2,000 likes and hundreds of messages of encouragement and solidarity.
The injuries caused by the attack are improving, but Notaro will have to undergo several operations to reconstruct her skin in the most affected areas: her forehead, left temple and left eye, which she struggles to see from now.
Notaro had reportedly taken out a restraint order against Tavares after the pair broke up last summer.
With ANSA
