Voluntary murder but also kidnapping are the crimes for which Filippo Turetta, the 22-year-old arrested in Germany and accused of the death of Giulia Cecchettin, must answer.
"We have to carry out all the technical investigations on the places, on the finds, on the car, we have to hear Turetta's version of events, and only at that point can a more complete approach be made ", specified Venice's chief prosecutor Bruno Cherchi.
The judiciary also contests the aggravating circumstance of the use of "insidious means".
As for the autopsy and other unrepeatable investigations "they will be, in part, marked by the times deriving from the rogatory documents that are being prepared" given "the presence of the suspect in foreign territory". The investigations include "the necessary participation" of Filippo Turetta.
PREMEDITATION – It is yet to be assessed whether or not there was premeditation. By analyzing Turetta's computer history , investigators discovered numerous searches for high-altitude survival kits. Furthermore , Giulia's body was found wrapped in some black bags and at the site of the attack, in Fossò, a knife with a broken blade was found which will now be examined to understand if it is the murder weapon.
At the moment, the medical examiner who examined the girl's body has already established that she was dead when she was taken by Turetta to the escarpment near Barcis. The autopsy, which could be carried out in the next few hours, will definitively clarify the causes of death and the time frame of the crime. Then the body will be returned to the family for a final farewell.
THE MEETING – Meanwhile yesterday, at the torchlight vigil in memory of Cecchettin in Vigonovo, Filippo Turetta's father, Nicola, approached Gino Cecchettin, the victim's father, to speak to him briefly . Filippo's lawyer, Emanuele Compagno, attended the meeting and reported it today. « Filippo's father took part in the torchlight procession with me and on that occasion he introduced some of Giulia's relatives. A meeting devoid of formalism - he says - which once again demonstrates the great dignity shown in this affair by the two families, everything took place with mutual respect, as in the days preceding and also after Giulia's discovery".
«After the torchlight procession – Giulia's uncle, Andrea Camerotto, later revealed – Nicola called Gino to be honest with him once again. The conversation lasted a very short time, they expressed closeness, beyond that, nothing more."
According to Emanuele Compagno, defender of Filippo Turetta, there was an exchange of messages via Whatsapp between the fathers of the two boys. In the message to Giulia's father, Turetta senior would have "expressed the utmost participation in their pain, and a strong closeness", asking for "forgiveness" and adding that "Filippo will have to pay for what he has done".
THE PARENTS – «We are still in shock for what he did – were the words of Filippo's parents, Nicola Turetta and Elisabetta Martini, immediately after their son's arrest -. We don't understand how something like this could have happened, we can't understand how a boy to whom we gave everything could have done something like this. It's not conceivable, there must be something that entered him." "We offer our utmost condolences and are close to the Cecchettin family, we loved Giulia and no one will take her back."
THE ARREST – Filippo Turetta was stopped after a thousand-kilometre escape that ended on a German motorway not far from Bad Durremberg , a town in northern Germany near Leipzig, where the traffic police stopped him on Saturday evening.
The 22-year-old's 7-day escape perhaps would not have even been interrupted if his black Fiat Punto - wanted throughout Europe - had not stopped on the emergency lane of Highway 9, without warning arrows. The car was out of gas, and he had no more money to refuel.
An international arrest warrant for murder issued by the Venice Prosecutor's Office was pending against him. The judge of the city court of Halle an der Saale, in Saxony Anhalt, has already validated the arrest, but we will have to wait for the regional court to begin examining the extradition request . “It could take about fifteen days to bring him to Italy,” his lawyer said.
(Unioneonline/D)