Volleyball player Julia Ituma, 18, found dead in Türkiye.

According to what has been learned, she would have fallen from the window of the hotel where she was staying with her team, Igor Gorgonzola Novara . Yesterday the 3-0 defeat in the second leg of the Champions League in Istanbul against Eczacibasi.

The Turkish police are investigating, according to local media it was a suicide. According to the website of the Turkish newspaper Hurryet "while the investigations into the accident are underway, the camera recordings revealed" that the Italian volleyball player "committed suicide in the night" by throwing herself from the sixth floor. The girl who shared the room with her "didn't hear anything because she was asleep and was woken up by the police."

The body was found around 5.30 in front of the hotel.

Ituma, born in 2004 to Nigerian parents, had played for three years for Club Italia , the federal formation in the A2 league championship with the young blue promises.

She had played with the Under 19 national team, winning a European gold and the title of best player of the tournament, and with the Under 21 runner-up in the world in 2021.

(Unioneonline/D)

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