September 23, 2024 | 10.05
READING TIME: 2 minutes
Ten months after the femicide of Giulia Cecchettin, the trial begins with Filippo Turetta as the defendant. The 22-year-old student, accused of aggravated voluntary homicide, concealment of a corpse, possession of weapons and kidnapping He faces life in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death on the evening of November 11, 2023Today, before the Assize Court of Venice, composed of lay judges and presided over by the toga Stefano Manduzio, the accused will not be there: he will remain in his cell, in the Verona prison of Montorio.
Instead, Gino Cecchettin, the victim’s father, arrived at the Palace of Justice without making a statement, wearing a pin with Giulia’s image.
In the small courtroom – 40 people admitted, half of them journalists, and only the cameras of the Rai – what promises to be a ‘lightning’ trial will begin: the prosecutor Andrea Petroni has presented a list of thirty witnesses, only one instead of the defense witness. The lawyers Giovanni Caruso and Monica Cornaviera have renounced the preliminary hearing, have anticipated that they will not ask for a psychiatric evaluation and maintain the need for a ‘normal’ trial far from any show.
In a trial with an (almost) obvious outcome, the only unknown factor about the conviction is the premeditation, but for the prosecution the evidence collected leaves little doubt: the ex-boyfriend controlled Giulia Cecchettin and would have planned the crime and the escape in advance. He had with him the knives with which he hit the graduate in Biomedical Engineering, but also scotch tape and black bags to tie her up and then hide her near Lake Barcis, about one hundred kilometers from Vigonovo (Padua), as well as money for the escape that ended (a week later) in Germany.
In the first hearing there will be space only for the admission of the civil parties and to draw up the calendar. In addition to the Cecchettin family – father Gino, siblings Elena and Davide (absent), uncle Alessio and grandmother Carla Gatto – the Municipalities of Vigonovo and Fossò will also ask to join the civil action, claiming damage to their image.
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