A year ago - the night between Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 November 2023 - Giulia Cecchettin died, killed by 75 stab wounds inflicted by her ex-boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, now awaiting trial before the Assize Court of Venice.

Turetta appeared before the judges only once: on October 25, with Gino Cecchettin looking him over from the civil parties' benches.

Cecchettin: «I don't feel hate»

"I was able to listen to Filippo's words without feeling hate, anger. And I did this for a year. I realized how important this exercise is to create value. But I also realized that there was something negative around me. It's human, it's understandable," Gino Cecchettin, Giulia's father, said last night on "Che tempo che fa" on La Nove. "All these feelings," he added, "are then released into their ecosystem. But in this last year I've learned to focus on the positive."

And to think positively, "as I always do - Cecchettin explained - I take a photo of Giulia and look at it, and so there is nothing negative that appears in my life, because I focus on the beautiful". This year, Cecchettin observed, "it seemed to me as if we were living in an atmosphere where we as individuals are individuals who can produce oxygen or carbon dioxide: oxygen is a positive feeling, carbon dioxide is something negative because then we bring it home, we bring it into relationships with our loved ones". Instead, "when we perceive any negative element from what happens to us, it is up to us to decide how to react: if we react positively we bring home to our children, to our loved ones a feeling of love, creating value in the system. Vice versa, if we were to be overwhelmed by the negative feeling, we would act in the opposite direction ". "I - concluded Giulia's father - have not been able to hate. I don't know how I did it, though. I think the secret is focusing on our loved ones who give us love, who give us beauty."

This year "we have worked hard, assiduously and we have created the 'Giulia Cecchettin Foundation', officially established a few weeks ago. Now we will present it at Montecitorio on November 18, guests of the vice president of the Chamber Giorgio Mulè".

The disappearance, the crime, the trial

The two young people had disappeared together on Saturday evening, November 10, after meeting for a walk in a shopping center in Marghera. At first it was thought that they had been kidnapped by the ex-boyfriend; but as the first evidence came in - the discovery of traces of blood in the industrial area of Fossò, the neighbor who had heard Giulia scream "help" - the fear of a tragic ending began to take hold. Turetta had already been on the run since the early hours of Sunday 11 with his black Fiat Punto, and had immediately disposed of the girl's body, found on November 18 in a forest near Lake Barcis, in Friuli; one of the places - it will be discovered - marked by Filippo in the papers of the murder plan.

The morning after the body was found, on November 19, Turetta was arrested in Germany, near Leipzig, stopped on the edge of a highway, the car with the headlights off and without gas. In the meantime, the Carabinieri, coordinated by the prosecutor Andrea Petroni, had lined up a series of pieces of evidence that (later) would lead to the nailing of the 22-year-old from Torreglia. One above all: the murder kit; a list of objects - scotch tape, knives, black nylon bags, shovels - that Filippo had written down on his cell phone 4 days before the crime, and which was found in memory by computer experts. Filippo remained in prison in Germany for about ten days, and in record time he was extradited to Italy on November 25, to end up in Verona prison. The spotlight is now on December 3, when the sentence is expected. Filippo is a self-confessed criminal. Everything revolves around premeditation: if the judges believe the prosecution's system, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

(Unioneonline/D)

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