In his indictment before the Court of Assizes of Venice, the prosecutor Andrea Petroni requested a life sentence for Filippo Turetta, accused of aggravated voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping and hiding the body of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin. In the front row, next to the defendants, is the accused. Gino Cecchettin is absent, due to commitments with the foundation that bears the name of his dead daughter, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Carla Gatto’s uncle and grandmother are representing the Cecchettin family in the courtroom.
The necessity
The murder of Giulia Cecchettin is the last act of control made by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta in the dock for the murder of the twenty-year-old child from Vigonovo. “The relationship between Giulia Cecchettin and the accused is characterized by strong pressure, control over the offended party, acquaintances, friendships, trips” what happens on December 11, 2023 is “the last of those actions ” control. Said the prosecutor. Who then said, according to the reconstructions resulting from the investigations, that Turetta was not preparing to turn himself in: Turetta was not turning himself in but that he was “preparing for arrest because he has run out of resources to escape and is doing so by erasing all traces, including those on his mobile phone.” In fact, the RIS also received signals regarding the cleaning of the car’s windows.
Precaution
In a list created by Filippo Turetta, born during an argument with his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin, modified up to two and a half hours before the murder on November 11, 2023, deleted from the mobile phone at dawn the next day - ‘ ‘ his first concern is to destroy it, after abandoning the body” – there is the premeditation of the feminine. From November 7th to November 11th he performs an action from the list that he aims to kill every day: ”There is no other situation, it is not an unexpected incident”. He buys the tape, he gets knives and black tape, he researches how to navigate online without being detected, he buys escape maps, he studies how to tie her up, he takes supplies, he does the t -any ATM withdrawal for the whole year. All the elements that come together to show premeditation: “It is a school case, it seems to me that it is difficult to find a more premeditated premeditation than this, which began four days before in a constant relationship with the offended party” said the prosecutor.
The reconstruction
“There is no doubt about the guilt of the accused, the evidence is so clear against Turetta, there is a shameful choice” of the elements that make him responsible for the murder of his girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin. It is one of the passages in the indictment in which prosecutor Andrea Petroni explains why he asked for a life sentence. Giulia Cecchettin was already attacked ”several times” from the Vigonovo car park and until twenty minutes later when the silhouette of the twenty-year-old was filmed, on the ground, in the industrial area of Fossó. In the parking lot “there was no time for discussion, everything lasted six minutes: some blood was found, an unhandled knife blade, the blood was definitely that of the guilty person.” However, in the reconstruction in the Chamber, the prosecutor tells details of the violence with which Giulia, who was still alert at first, was attacked and abandoned.
The body of Giulia Cecchettin was found, covered in black bags, and abandoned near Lake Barcis in a niche, I do not know how the accused found it at night. If it had snowed that week we would still be looking for the body”.
The next morning at 10am Turetta was already in Austria, from here his track was lost until the German police found Filippo Turetta and the car broken down on the emergency lane in Germany. “He tells them in English: ‘I killed my girlfriend’.” In the courtroom, in front of the Venetian Court of Assizes, the prosecutor Andrea Petroni traces the steps that led to the arrest of Filippo Turetta. When German agents found him,
However, the violence against Giulia only came to light during the night of the murder. To demonstrate the stalking of the accused on his trial for murder in the courtroom, the Prosecutor also read some of the messages sent by the accused to Giulia Cecchettin: “I will make you regret all the harm you are doing me” or ”If my life ends, my life is worth it” another message was written by the student who sends a few dozen a day. The long list is about his studies – Turetta asks Cecchettin to delay his studies – and his desire for his girlfriend. don’t dedicate time to When she knows she’s about to go out for pizza, Turetta writes “don’t do it, it’s a lot, it’s the limit”.
In the process a Filippo Turetta, I admit that I killed Giulia Cecchettin a year ago, the public prosecutor Andrea Petroni was asked to summarize in an application for conviction investigations and results of the scant hearing, with no witnesses but a lengthy examination of the accused accused of voluntary manslaughter aggravated by premeditation, cruelty, brutality, kidnapping, concealment of a body and stalking.
A series of crimes that mean life imprisonment unless, but it is unlikely, the defense, together with lawyers Giovanni Caruso and Monica Cornaviera, succeed in convincing the Court of Assizes that Turetta did not premeditate the a crime
However, it was the same engineering student, now incarcerated in the Montorio prison in Verona, who admitted in court that the tape found by the police in his car was used to bind the victim, that the knives were planted in the Grande Punto soon. before the crime and go over the ‘to-do list’ which shows the prosecutor the clear desire to end Giulia because he did not accept that she had left her life.
Motionless, with his head down. Filippo Turetta, in the courtroom, attends the indictment of the prosecutor in Venice Andrea Petroni who is recreating the murder of Giulia Cecchettin who was killed with 75 wounds by her ex-boyfriend at his trial. This is the second time, following the questioning at the last hearing, that Turetta will appear before the Assize Court.
Filippo Turetta planned to kill Giulia Cecchettin: he wrote down on a piece of paper the things to buy to immobilize his ex-girlfriend, he studied the maps so that the body could be disposed of and he organized an escape from Vigonovo (Padua) di. He never considered the idea of leaving alive those who had made his decision, much less did he think of harming himself. The prosecutor Andrea Petroni, who pressed him during the question, is sure of this.
In the courtroom again, the reconstruction of the updated relationship that lasted about a year and a half between the two biomedical engineering students, the increasing obsession of the accused, the choice of the victim to move away and Turetta’s insistence that turns into a persecution extinguished. – until he spies on her with an app on his mobile phone – saving him the dire circumstances of stalking.
The prosecution cannot but support cruelty: the victim who refused suffered 75 stab wounds. “I killed Giulia because she didn’t want to get back with me, I suffered with this thing. I wanted to get back together and she didn’t want to… it made me angry that she didn’t ask” Words Turetta.
After an evening together and the end ‘no’, Turetta makes his plan written down in the list, a list of things to buy and ideas, which includes the first receipt.
“I thought we could kidnap her in the car, drive together to a remote place to spend more time together… then attack her, take her life and then me” he says when questioned.
always been one. On November 11, 2023 in the Vigonovo car park, a few steps from Cecchettin’s house, Turetta knows what he wants. When one of the knives breaks he does not stop: he puts his old friend in the car, blocks him with tape and when he tries to escape he ends him with another blade, in the industrial area of Fossò. After a hundred kilometers he leaves the body, wrapped in black bags, near Loch Barcis and continues his solitary escape through the narrow streets studied in advance, using only cash and turning off his phone so it will not be found. Until the surrender in Germany, a week after the murder of Giulia Cecchettin.
After Petroni it will be the turn of the family’s lawyers: Stefano Tigani, who represents Gino Cecchettin, the father of the victim, Nicodemo Gentile for his sister Elena Cecchettin, Piero Coluccio for his uncle Andrea Camerotto, Antonio Cozza for his paternal grandmother.
Tuesday Defense arguments with Turetta who should speak again. The decision is expected on December 3.
Von der Leyen also remembers Giulia Checchettin
“One out of every three women suffers violence in their lives. On this day to end violence against women, let us remember that there is a face, a name, a soul, a story behind every number. Women like Giulia Cecchettin in Italy , Deborah Mihalova in Bulgaria and Gisele Pelicot in France. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said this in a video statement published on X.