“How can you sleep with him?”

The news that Oscar Pistoriusthe former Paralympic champion on probation since last January after serving 9 years in prison for the murder of his then partner Reeva Steenkamphas a new girlfriend – very similar to the model shot dead on Valentine’s Day 2013 – sparked strong reactions from Reeva’s family. If the mother warned Pistorius’ new partner, 33-year-old Rita Greylingthat the murderer of his daughter “he still has anger issues“, Steenkamp’s sister was even harsher towards the 38-year-old South African: “Is he so sick that he wants to find a lookalike? I wonder: after killing Reeva, did he want to replace her with someone else?“. And then, turning to Pistorius’ new girlfriend: “But is she crazy? I wonder how a woman can close her eyes at night and go to sleep with a man who she knows fired four bullets that mutilated the flesh of a woman he said he loved“.

Pistorius has a new partner, Reeva’s sister tears

Pistorius – who since the day of his release tries to expose himself as little as possible and lives in his uncle Arnold’s overprotected villa – has recently been spotted out and about with the daughter of a multimillionaire farmer, Rita Greyling, and some close friends have declared that the relationship between the two have lasted for three months. The new partner’s resemblance to Reeva is indeed remarkable.

Steenkamp’s older sister, 59-year-old Simone, cried as she read Oscar’s story of not only starting to rebuild his life but also finding a new woman after spending just nine years in prison. Reeva’s family never believed the ex-athlete’s version, who always claimed that he woke up in the early hours of the morning thinking that a thief was entering the house, unaware that his girlfriend was in the bathroom. The truth of the trial established something else definitively, that it was a murder: Pistorius, at the height of a jealous quarrel, shot the girl through the bathroom door, knowingly killing her.

The sister of the ex-girlfriend killed at the new one: “How can you close your eyes at night?”

“I look at the photographs of this woman and right now I get shivers and goosebumps – he said Simone to the Daily Mail from his home in Port Elizabeth, South Africa – What shocks me is that she looks so much like my Reeva. He has the same build, the same face and hair, even the same eyes. Is he so sick that he wants to find a lookalike? I wonder: after killing Reeva, did he want to replace her with someone else? I also wonder how a woman can close her eyes at night and go to sleep with a man who she knows fired four bullets that mutilated the flesh of a woman he said he loved. Those bullets were Black Talon bullets, which are illegal for use on animals, but he shot one into Reeva’s head and three more into her body, doing terrible things. How can you hug a man who you know has that trigger hidden inside him?“.

33-year-old Rita Greyling is a family friend of Pistorius

“This proves to me even more that he has no remorse for what he did to Reeva – continues the sister of the model killed by Pistorius – Reeva found Oscar totally charming at first for the first three months and no doubt the same happened with this woman, but then he changes and becomes more domineering. He became very possessive and Reeva wanted to leave but Oscar wouldn’t let her. I will always be convinced that that night she ended the relationship and he lost all control. If he couldn’t have her, no one could have her, so he took the gun and shot her. He killed her. They were special projectiles that expanded upon impact with human flesh“.

Pistorius with his partner Reeva Steenkamp in 2012: he will kill her the following year

The warning to Pistorius’ new partner: “Sleep with one eye open”

Then comes the warning for Rita Greyling: “This new woman knows that a judge found him guilty of murder, which means she must know that he was found capable of doing such a thing to a woman, but is she sleeping with him? I have nothing against her, but I will warn her to sleep with one eye open. He has the potential within him to do what he did to Reeva again and I never want that to happen again. He will always have anger issues and to some extent I can understand that, having had such a tough childhood: his legs were amputated at birth and his mother died when he was 15. His father didn’t make it and he went to live with his uncle, so life was hard for him and I understand that, but unfortunately the anger inside him boiled over and led to a murder. I know as part of his probation he has to take anger management classes and gender violence classes, but as far as I’m concerned it’s always somewhere inside him. I’m so shocked that he chose a woman who looks so much like my Reeva. I can’t help but think that after getting rid of one Reeva, he got another“.

Pistorius hides from the cameras on the day of his release, January 5th

Pistorius was released amid controversy on January 5, when he was granted parole. The South African, the first athlete in history who was able to win a medal in a world competition for able-bodied athletes (the silver with the 4×400 relay at the 2011 World Championships in Taegu), has never stopped claiming to have killed for the then 29 year old Reeva made a mistake. Now at 38 he is trying to put his life back together, he lives in a small house in the garden of his rich uncle Arnold’s villa, which is protected by private guards, and has been in a stable relationship for a few months with 33-year-old Rita.

The woman is a successful business consultant, daughter of the very rich and famous farmer BP Greyling, one of the most important figures in the South African agricultural world, as well as a long-time family friend. A source close to Pistorius said: “He is trying to rebuild his life in a discreet way, avoiding bars and restaurants and keeping away from the public, going unnoticed. He is slowly trying to reintegrate into society, but he is doing so through the families he has been linked to for decades “.