Filippo Turetta, arrested for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin, will arrive in Venice today from Germany. The 21-year-old, currently detained in Halle prison, will be in Italy in the late morning. Turetta will return home aboard an Air Force Falcon 900, the same one that brought the marine Salvatore Girone back to Italy from India seven years ago.
Turetta will be taken to the Montorio prison in Verona which is equipped with a ‘protected’ department, with isolated cells, in which the person confined behind bars has no contact with any of the other inmates. The choice is adopted in the case of serious crimes or in the case in which the arrested person is the protagonist of a media case. Turetta will be in isolation and monitored on sight, as per practice, to monitor for possible self-harm risks. The murderer, who will be under constant surveillance, will see a doctor and most likely a psychologist.
The date of the guarantee interrogation will also be decided and must be carried out within five days (starting today) by the investigating judge of Venice Benedetta Vitolo. In any case, the interrogation should not take place before Monday 27 November.
From what we learn, the prosecutor Andrea Petroni will be present at the interrogation (the presence of the prosecution publication is not necessary, ed.) who could ask for an aggravation with respect to the crimes charged, while the defenders could ask for an alternative measure to prison or already in this phase is the psychiatric assessment. If the lawyers do not make any requests, the investigating judge must not write any new provisions. To the judge the young man could repeat the confession already made to the German police, where he was arrested, or decide, assisted by lawyers Giovanni Caruso and Emanuele Compagno, to make use of the right not to answer.
The framework of the investigation could change in these hours. Prosecutor Petroni could accuse Turetta of not only murder and kidnapping, but also the concealment of a corpse: the young man, according to reconstructions, loaded Giulia Cecchettin’s body into his car and traveled over 100 kilometers before throwing the body in a cliff near Lake Barcis.
Other elements will come from the autopsy scheduled for December 1st, with particular attention to the stab wounds inflicted on the girl to evaluate the possible aggravating circumstance of the cruelty (it is not the number that determines the aggravating circumstance, ed.). The development of the investigation could also lead to the contestation of premeditation. It will be necessary to understand whether Filippo Turetta brought the two seized knives from home, whether the online purchase of the adhesive tape (made a couple of days before the murder) was intended to cover the mouth and prevent Giulia from screaming, whether he did internet research to study the escape route (and advice on how to survive) of more than a thousand kilometers to Germany where he was arrested.
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