The sister of Giulia Cecchettin, a
22-year-old Italian woman murdered by her ex-boyfriend Filippo
Turetta in November 2023, on Wednesday blasted judges for saying
that the 75 stab wounds Turetta inflicted on his victim did not
amount to "cruelty".
On Wednesday the judges who sentenced Turetta to life in prison
in December released the reasons for their decision, including
why they excluded "cruelty" as an aggravating factor.
They said the reason he stabbed her so many times was a result
of the killer's "inexperience and inability" and was not down to
cruelty.
Cecchettin's murder shocked Italy and it was hoped that the case
would force Italy to face up to its problem with gender-based
violence.
But a long series of femicides has continued here since
Cecchettin was killed, including the recent shocking murders of
two women students in Rome and Messina.
"A sentence like this, with the reasons given at a moment in
history like the one we are going through, is not only
dangerous, it is also a terrible precedent,' said Giulia
Cecchettin's sister Elena in an Instagram post.
"'If we do not begin to take this issue seriously, everything
that was said about (the femicide of) Giulia being the last one
are just words in the wind".
Turetta admitted to stabbing Cecchettin to death at Fossò, near
Venice, on November 11, 2023, days before she was due to
graduate from Padua University in biomedical engineering.
Cecchettin was reported missing on the day she was murdered
after she met up with Turetta and went for a meal with him.
Her body was found in a gully at Val Caltea, near Lake Barcis in
Friuli, on November 18, 2023.
Turetta, who was doing the same course as Cecchettin, went on
the run after dumping the corpse.
He was tracked down to the side of a road near Leipzig, Germany
after he ran out of money and his car ran out of petrol, a week
after the murder.
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