the maps, the adhesive tape, the net searches –

It’s a very heavy accusation cost that the Venice prosecutor’s workplace contests within the discover of closure of the investigations towards Filippo Turetta, who confessed to the homicide of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin. Whereas the ‘noise’ that exploded within the squares and within the consciences in Giulia’s identify has by no means died down, six months after the night time of November eleventh when she was killed among the many factories and empty streets of Fossò, a number of kilometers away from her dwelling in Vigonovo, the investigators draw a line and resolve some authorized knots. They usually determine that sure, Turetta had premeditated to kill her as they’d display, explains the prosecutor Bruno Cherchi, «the seek for locations by way of the web, the acquisition of the fabric essential to immobilize the sufferer, the geographical map, the act of silencing the offended individual placing duct tape on her to maintain her from screaming, tightening the lady’s wrists and legs.”

They add the annoying circumstance of cruelty, to be understood as jurisprudence understands it: having inflicted “gratuitous struggling that can’t be linked to the traditional strategy of inflicting loss of life”. On this case with twenty stab wounds, the primary within the car parking zone in entrance of the home the place she lived when Turetta attacked her in his black Fiat Punto. Right here for a number of hours, traces of the lady’s blood remained on the asphalt and a kitchen knife was discovered. Then, after immobilizing her with tape, that is the reconstruction of the Prosecutor’s Workplace, he pushed her into the automobile, overcoming her resistance, reached Fossò in a couple of minutes and attacked her once more, ending her off. From there started the escape that stored Italy in suspense for per week. After the crime, Turetta fled in direction of Friuli and, having deserted the physique on a cliff close to Lake Barcis, he fled in direction of Austria after which in direction of Germany, the place he was stopped by the German police, close to Leipzig, within the morning of November nineteenth. “I killed her,” Filippo instantly mentioned to those that stopped him, a confession that can’t be used within the trial whereas the one recorded within the Montorio jail in Verona, the place he’s detained, is.

The context wherein the crime occurred was that of stalking, as urged to the Prosecutor’s Workplace by chats and testimonies which confer with the younger man’s morbid insistence in direction of his ex-partner after their relationship had ended. Homicide aggravated by premeditation, cruelty, brutality, kidnapping, possession of weapons and concealment of a corpse, is the strong cost towards which he should defend himself earlier than the Courtroom of Assizes. There is no such thing as a room for the abbreviated process, which might have resulted in a discount of a 3rd of the sentence, as a result of the crimes are so severe that they might result in a life sentence. Thus ends the primary ‘judicial’ a part of what within the meantime has grow to be Giulia’s story and never, as usually occurs in media narration, that of her alleged assassin, on whom the lights went out. The story of Giulia, her father Gino and her sister Elena who’ve by no means earlier than introduced consideration to the subject of feminicides with their appeals for a profound cultural change.