Fourth Degree, “do an appraisal in Turetta”. Abbate shocks everyone, Nuzzi’s reaction –

Filippo Turetta accused of the murder of Giulia Cecchettin answers questions from prosecutor Andrea Petroni. The 21-year-old from Veneto is a self-confessed criminal, but the point that could steer the story of the trial towards life imprisonment or a lighter sentence is that of premeditation. Various passages of Turetta’s interrogation were broadcast on Quarto Grado, the program hosted by Gianluigi Nuzzi on Rete 4 which has followed the story since the disappearance of Giulia, who was kidnapped and then killed by her ex-boyfriend. The prosecutor presses him on what is written in a list, a sort of action plan that he implements starting from the beginning of November. In particular, the list of things purchased before the kidnapping: three tapes to tie her up and stop her from screaming, maps to escape and dispose of her body, the large plastic bags. “I hypothesized that we would kidnap her in the car, drive away together to an isolated location to spend more time together… then attack her, take her life and then me.” A sort of plan that included the crime. But in other passages Turetta states that he acted out of anger, on impulse.

The host points out a phrase in particular in Turetta’s long deposition: “There is an adverb that struck me… ‘I inevitably hurt her’, so it was all premeditated at this point. He confessed it”. Carmelo Abbate, journalist and regular guest on the program, disagrees. “I hope that the Court of Assizes orders an expert opinion – he states – please carry out an expert opinion on this boy, if we have to give a life sentence to a 20 year old boy at least we know who we are giving it to”. Reasoning that provokes Nuzzi’s reaction: “Is life imprisonment based on the registry office? Or on the brutality and uselessness of a crime?”. Abbate argues: “Looking at the posture, the look, the shyness, the fragility… The expert opinion is not an escape from responsibility, it means a supplement of a clinical nature to understand at least to whom we are giving life imprisonment”. A thesis that the host forcefully rejects.