Filippo Turetta has been sentenced to life in jail for the homicide of Giulia Cecchettin, a college scholar whose brutal killing solid a grim highlight on femicide in Italy.
Cecchettin, 22, was stabbed greater than 70 instances earlier than her physique was wrapped in black plastic baggage and dumped in a ditch near a lake north of Venice in November final yr. Her homicide triggered protests throughout the nation.
Turetta, Cecchettin’s ex-boyfriend, was arrested in Germany on 19 November 2023, the day after her physique was discovered. He advised Venice’s assise court docket in October that he had deliberate to kidnap and kill Cecchettin after she refused to get again along with him.
Judges additionally ordered Turetta to pay a complete €760,000 in compensation to the Cecchettin household.
Prosecutor Andrea Petroni referred to as for a life sentence, saying that Turetta had acted with “explicit brutality”.
Turetta’s lawyer, Giovanni Caruso, had argued that the life sentence was extreme, saying his consumer was “not Pablo Escobar”, the infamous Colombian drug baron.
Cecchettin, a biomedical engineering scholar, disappeared on 11 November 2023 after going to a shopping center in Marghera, accompanied by Turetta, to purchase a costume for her upcoming commencement.
In the course of the week-long police search, a roadside surveillance picture emerged of Turetta hitting Cecchettin, who may very well be seen attempting to flee earlier than being pressured again into the automobile.
Commenting on the decision, her father, Gino, advised reporters that “justice has been completed in keeping with the legal guidelines in pressure”. He added, nonetheless, that “as a society, now we have all misplaced”.
He stated final week that his daughter’s reminiscence had been additional “humiliated” by the Turetta comparability with Escobar. Caruso on Tuesday shook arms along with her father, reportedly telling him: “I perceive. It’s my job, it’s not simple.”
Andrea Camerotto, Cecchettin’s uncle, advised reporters: “I’m not for forgiveness; I’ll by no means forgive [the person] who killed my niece and I’ll by no means forgive those that hurt girls.”
Cecchettin’s relationship with Turetta lasted a few yr earlier than she ended it in August 2023. Her sister, Elena, advised the Guardian final week that the “management and manipulation” had began early on, with a match of jealousy after Giulia stated she was going to fulfill a male pal she had identified from highschool. He had by no means beforehand been bodily violent, she added, however as with many femicide circumstances, Turetta couldn’t settle for that the connection had ended.
A basis was arrange final month in Cecchettin’s reminiscence.
Since Cecchettin, 106 girls in Italy have been killed by a person. Within the overwhelming majority of circumstances the suspect was both a present or former accomplice.
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