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".
