2023-11-26 21:18:04
Crowds demonstrated in the streets of different cities in Italy to condemn violence against women in commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The demonstration recalled the recent femicide of a 22-year-old girl at the hands of her boyfriend, leaving Italian society shocked.
On November 22, Giulia Cecchettin was murdered in the north of the country just before graduating in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Padua, Milan. Her boyfriend Filippo Turetta, a year younger than her, was upset that she had finished her studies before him; He demanded that Giulia not do it, but she refused, so he kidnapped her and fled with her while all of Italy followed the search for a week. Finally, they found Giulia’s body in a forest.
Called by the collective “Not one less” (Not one less), more than 60 thousand people gathered in the streets of Rome, Turin, Milanamong other large cities in the country to show their indignation faced with the case, demand an end to this problem and to keep alive the memory of Cecchettin.
Slogans such as “For Giulia, for all: a battle cry” and “we are the very strong and fierce cry of all those women who no longer have a voice” echoed in the Italian capital. The most repeated slogan was “If tomorrow it’s my turn, burn everything”a phrase taken from verses written by the Peruvian Cristina Torres-Cáceres against sexist violence in Latin America, which has gained relevance in the social networks of women throughout Italy.
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According to the European Commission, people die on this continent more than 3000 people a year at the hands of their partners or family members.
Meanwhile, Italian state television RAI reported that in the days since Cecchettin’s body was found, calls to 1522, a national hotline for victims of gender violence, have increased by about 200 to 400 per dayincluding those of parents of young women.
“Healthy son of patriarchy”
Turetta stabbed Giulia to death with twenty stab wounds, hid the body and fled to Germany where he was captured and returned to Italy on a special military flight after being located yesterday. The characteristics of the case shook all of Italy.
Giulia’s murder was the last of the 107 crimes of femicideaccording to data from the Italian police.
Earlier, Italians had taken to the streets in silent, torch-bearing marches to protest the killings of women. But Elena Cecchettin, Giulia’s sister, offered an alternative: “make noise” to honor his sister. “If you have keys, ring them,” she requested.
Millions of young people pounded their desks in universities and colleges. But also in the marches, women and men rang their house keys to say “enough!” to violence.
Also, given what happened his sister Elenaasked that Giulia’s murderer not be spoken of as “a monster”, but as a “healthy son of the patriarchal society impregnated with rape culture”.
Kidnapping and femicide
From the beginning, the main hypothesis pointed to the young woman’s ex-partner as the main suspect. But after having found Giulia’s body and having performed the corresponding autopsy, the authorities accused the young man, one year youngerFilippo to be the author of death of the Italian student. Apparently, both had maintained a romantic relationship. However, she Giulia decided end her romance with the young man just a few months ago.
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From that moment on, as the victim’s relatives detailed, his life became a true martyrdom. And Filippo did not take kindly to Giulia ending their relationship. Since the young woman made the decision, her ex-partner has not stopped “harass him” and send you messages on threatening tone every night, as some local Italian media have reported.
Filippo Turetta suffered because he was about to graduate a year or two after Giulia, who categorically rejected her boyfriend’s pressure to avoid the graduation ceremony at the University of Padua, one of the oldest in the world, because he felt ” diminished”. The refusal to allow Giulia to complete her doctorate in biomedical engineering was one of the motivations behind the crime, impacting the entire nation in an unprecedented way.
“Every woman murdered because she is guilty of being free is a intolerable aberration “But it leads me to continue on the path to stop this barbarism,” said the premier. Giorgia Meloniwhich has already approved a package of measures that makes penalties harsher and promotes actions to protect victims.
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On the night of Sunday the 12th, a neighbor in Vigonovo, in the Veneto region where the victim’s family lives, heard an argument and violent noises. He called the police that when he arrived he found traces of an assault that ended when Giulia was beaten and put inside the car for her boyfriend.
Three days later, while the car with Giulia and her kidnapper were searched in northern Venice, the security cameras of an industrial establishment They showed the young woman trying to flee while her boyfriend beat her. That’s when a guard called the police. It is believed that it was that night when Filippo killed her girlfriend, then took her to a wooded area and left her body hidden.
A medical examiner ruled that the young woman had received some twenty stab wounds in various parts of the body, especially between the head and neck. They stated that the victim did not die immediately, but rather agonized for almost half an hour.
Finally a police dog managed to find the place where the body lay, which was next to Lago Di Barcis, in the Pordenone region, in Italy.
The search for the murderer multiplied with more helicopters controlling the roads in the area, until it was announced that Filippo had been arrested in neighboring Germany while fleeing. She had run out of money and fuel.
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