«Yesterday I felt offended again and Giulia's memory humiliated».
Gino Cecchettin wrote this on Facebook after yesterday's hearing of the trial for the murder of his daughter, in which the lawyers of the former confessed offender, Filippo Turetta, spoke. "The defense of a defendant is an inviolable right," he wrote in the post, but "I believe it is important to stay within a limit that is dictated by common sense and human respect. Going beyond this limit risks increasing the pain of the victim's family and arousing indignation in those who witness it."
Reference to the words of the defense that contested the aggravating circumstances advanced by the prosecutors. Filippo Turetta "did not premeditate" the murder of Giulia Cecchettin, "there was no cruelty" in the act and one cannot even speak of stalking, just as "the aggravating circumstance of the emotional relationship" should be excluded: a barrier across the board with respect to the prosecution's theses that the lawyers Giovanni Caruso and Monica Cornaviera tried to raise in the Court of Assizes in Venice, in the last hearing before the sentence, on December 3. A counter-reconstruction that aims to obtain the generic mitigating circumstances for which the prosecutor requested life imprisonment.
"Filippo Turetta knows he will have to spend many years in prison but he is not el Chapo, he is not Pablo Escobar - said Caruso - he does not fear life imprisonment because he immediately said he was ready to pay for what he did" . The defense of Turetta's lawyers was in two parts. The first to refute the aggravating circumstances, the second to present the mitigating circumstances to the Court. The defense expects nothing but prison for Filippo and they know that a very serious charge hangs over him. But for the lawyers the theory of premeditation must be dismantled: "It did not exist, he was unsure about everything". And not even the famous list of things to do, compiled by Turetta 4 days before the ambush on Giulia Cecchettin, would demonstrate, for them, "beyond any reasonable doubt" the existence of a plan by the killer, if anything the attempted kidnapping. For this reason, Turetta, explained the lawyer, "had to get ropes and tape to immobilize the girl".
Turetta, the lawyer also reported, said he was "sorry to have been described as a person who lies", something supported yesterday by the prosecutor Petroni. Caruso is banking on Turetta's insecurity to dismantle the premeditation which "must be monolithic, not intermittent, 'I do it, or I don't do it'" . "He - insisted the defense lawyer - is insecure, he doesn't know whether to take the exams at the university, he doesn't know whether to go out with friends, he doesn't know whether to go back to playing volleyball: he is always uncertain", as also demonstrated by the "list of things to do".
The lawyer then went on to undermine the theory of cruelty. The enormous number of stab wounds - 75 of which were counted on Giulia Cecchettin's body - brings into play, according to the defense, "Filippo's insecurity. It was an attack with random stab wounds, without knowing the cause, it was not a cold and calm act". And on stalking he recalled that if it occurred it was after a long time that the two had been together, that is, in October 2023, shortly before the femicide committed on November 11. "Giulia - he explained - was not afraid of Filippo Turetta. She wanted to leave him, she had even written a list in which she listed the reasons why she wanted to end that relationship". But after they broke up they went to a couple of concerts together, she "never showed fear, she did not change her lifestyle habits". The "toxic relationship" only occurred after the summer of 2023.
Then the mitigating circumstances, on which Cornaviera expressed himself: Turetta's memorials, a private act "but made available to the parties", then that having "I held out my hands for the bracelets to the agents, muttering 'I killed my girlfriend'" when he was arrested in Germany. "Turetta - continues Cornaviera - provides the passwords to access his devices, he also offers to do an inspection to reconstruct where he threw Giulia's". As for the prospect of life imprisonment, the two lawyers argued, "Turetta is no longer the same as in 2023, he knows what he did".
(Online Union)