The body found this morning near Lake Barcis, in the province of Pordenone, belongs to Giulia Cecchettin . This was confirmed by the Venice prosecutor's office and the carabinieri.
The body was recovered in a gully between the lake area and Piancavallo . The discovery was made this morning by the firefighters during the search for the girl and her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta, who disappeared a week ago from Vigonovo, in the province of Venice.
Thrown 50 meters
According to the results of the initial investigations , the person responsible for the crime killed her with several stab wounds to the head and neck . Then he abandoned her at the edge of the road and let her roll down a cliff for about fifty metres, until her body stopped at the bottom of the gully. The road where Giulia was found is closed in winter until April 15th because it is impassable. A circumstance which, it is pointed out, the young man does not necessarily know.
No trace of Filippo Turetta or his car . At first the rumor circulated that near the place where the body was found there was a black Punto identical to that of the 22-year-old, a circumstance later denied by the police. His car would have entered Austria.
The appeal
The chief prosecutor of Venice, Bruno Cherchi , launched an appeal to the boy from the microphones of Tg1: " Turn yourself in so you can give your version of the facts ." «We hoped not to have to break this news – he added – but the reconstruction of the facts that Turetta could do would be very important, even for himself. This is why I repeat: do not continue this escape and turn yourself in."
Video
The two had vanished into thin air last Saturday. The many fears about the girl's fate increased yesterday, when it became known that in a video from the video surveillance cameras of a commercial business in Vigonovo, their town of residence, he is seen attacking her, and then loading her into a bleeding car .
The lawyer
« Now is the time to grieve and to rally around the family. Meanwhile, the work of the investigators has led to the rediscovery of Giulia. Now is also the time to identify the responsibilities and dynamics of this affair, for which we still rely on the police ", said the lawyer Stefano Tigani in a brief statement in front of the Cecchettin house who, with the Penelope association, is assisting the family. «I love you», wrote her sister Elena, publishing a photo of herself and Giulia on Instagram.
The research
The searches that led to the discovery of the body were resumed today in the Barcis lake area not on the basis of a specific input, but following the investigators' control procedure, even after initially negative results. The Barcis area is in fact located along the route that Filippo Turetta's black Fiat Punto would have followed in its escape - traced by the electronic gates .
The young man's cell phone
Meanwhile, Turetta's cell phone (an international arrest warrant is now pending on him) appears to still be online. However, this does not mean that the young person has used it, or is using it.
The phone is in fact deactivated, but for server reasons it can also receive WhatsApp messages. The sender simply sees the double gray tick, confirming (as happens for certified e-mails) that the Meta server has made the message available to the recipient. This is the explanation that the boy's lawyer, Emanuele Compagno, gave regarding press reports on alleged activity on the 22-year-old's phone.
Just as the boy's parents had tried to send him messages, without receiving a response, Giulia's sister, Elena, also attempted in recent days to send messages to Filippo's WhatsApp number , but only having confirmation that these were 'delivered' , unread (double green tick).
Turetta's parents
«Filippo, hand yourself over to the police, so you can explain what happened». This is the message that the Turetta family sent in the evening through their lawyer, Emanuele Compagno, to their son who had been on the run for 7 days and is now accused of Giulia's murder. "When I told the Turettas about the discovery of the body, their world collapsed", added the lawyer, underlining that the family members expressed closeness to the young woman's family. «They are very shaken and tried. It is a drama that they did not expect, they would never have imagined these accusations against their son."
(Unioneonline)