"I tried several times to end it during the escape, but I didn't have the courage." Filippo Turetta said this in his interrogation to the German authorities, during which the young man admitted to having "killed" his girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin.
Within a few days the 22-year-old will be transferred to Italy, perhaps as early as Friday : today the Naumburg Attorney General authorized the extradition. The operation is headed by the Service for International Police Cooperation (SCIP), which is coordinating with its German counterpart to organize the delivery of the young man. The men of Scip - which is a joint service - will go to Germany to pick up the young man who will be transferred on a direct flight to Fiumicino. Once in Rome he will be notified of the precautionary custody order in prison, again in the capital. He can then be transferred to Venice for the investigation by the investigating judge.
This morning the defense lawyer Emanuele Compagno spoke again, not ruling out asking for a psychiatric assessment to be carried out on the young man : «Why should we rule out resorting to an assessment? This is not to exonerate the boy from all responsibility, but to truly understand fully what was in his mind."
(Unioneonline/L)