Giulia Cecchettin: Prosecutor seeks life imprisonment for Turetta on Day Against Violence Against Women

Prosecutor Andrea Petroni demanded a life sentence for Filippo Turetta at the end of the indictment in the trial for the murder of Giulia Cecchettin before the Venice Assize Court. Delivering a written statement, the prosecutor in two and a half hours first reconstructed the chronology of the facts, denying possible defence elements. Turetta repeatedly failed to tell the truth, Petroni said, despite the fact that he had had every opportunity to tell it and an education to avoid the crime. The prosecutor asked for Turetta to be sentenced to life imprisonment on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence. The 22-year-old student was mercilessly murdered by her ex-boyfriend, a murder that shook Italy by bringing the topic of patriarchy back into the centre of discussion. Turetta is indicted for aggravated voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping and concealment of a corpse.

"There is no doubt of the defendant's guilt, the evidence is so clear against Turetta, there is an embarrassment of riches" of the elements that make him responsible for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin, said the prosecutor in his indictment before the Venice Assize Court. The young student on the verge of graduation was attacked "repeatedly" as early as the Vigonovo car park and up to twenty minutes later when the 22-year-old's silhouette was shot, on the ground, in the industrial area of Fossó, the prosecutor recalled. Turetta watched the indictment motionless, with his head down. Imperturbable while Andrea Petroni reconstructed the murder of Giulia, killed with 75 stab wounds by her ex-boyfriend at the bar. This is the second time, after his interrogation at the last hearing, that Turetta has appeared before the Assize Court.

In the car park 'there was no time for an argument, everything lasted six minutes: several bloodstains were found, the blade of a knife without a handle, the blood definitely belongs to the offended person. There is a dynamic aggression, Giulia was conscious and called for help,' said the prosecutor. Giulia was forced to get back into the car and before arriving in Fossó, 'she was hit several times: she bled profusely as the traces of blood in the car show,' the prosecutor added. The aggression in the industrial area 'lasts very little', the video from a company camera shows above all 'the defenceless person on the ground, which means that a whole series of injuries, in particular the 25 injuries on the hands, the immobilisation and the silencing (use of scotch tape, ed.) happened before, they have no reason to be after'.

Gino, the victim's father, who is not in court today, posted on his profile the video of the foundation 'One hundred thousand', the campaign with the slogan 'If I don't want you can't' to educate against gender violence.

In front of the Venice Assize Court, prosecutor Andrea Petroni is ready to ask for life imprisonment for the 22-year-old man, who is charged with aggravated voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping, and concealment of a corpse. Petroni first described the chain of events in detail. Until, after a week on the run, Filippo Turetta was apprehended in Germany and confessed to killing Giulia Cecchettin: 'He is not turning himself in, but he has run out of money and is preparing for arrest by deleting the evidence on his mobile phone,' said the Venice prosecutor in his indictment. The public prosecutor focused on the things the defendant disposed of: 'There is no victim's mobile phone, there are no Turetta's bloody clothes,' were some of the examples cited by the prosecutor in the courtroom.