Filippo Turetta is in Italy: silent and resigned

Tracksuit and tennis shoes, blue jacket, unkempt beard. Silent and resigned, completely uninterested in what is happening around him. As Filippo Turetta it is described by the men of the Scip service (the Italian international cooperation service) who this morning at 10.45 in Frankfurt am Main took delivery of it and embarked it on the Falcon 900 of the Air Force to bring it back to Italy.

It is 11.22pm when the plane lands on the empty runway at Marco Polo airport in Venice. A tall boy comes down the ladder escorted by the police. The area is off limits but the shape of Turetta is now recognisable. The 22-year-old from Torreglia is taken to the airport offices for notification of the precautionary custody order and at 1.20pm he leaves aboard a Lancia Delta with tinted windows preceded by three motorcycles and two escort cars from a secondary exit of Tessera airport.

He arrives in Verona at 2.30pm to be taken into custody in the Montorio prison in the infirmary department in a single room watched closely 24 hours a day to avoid acts of self-harm. Only in the next few days, after a careful psychological evaluation, could he be moved to the so-called “protected” department dedicated to those accused of crimes with strong social disapproval. Here he awaits him Giovanni Caruso, the lawyer indicated by the family alongside the public defender Emanuele Compagno.

The Falcon left Ciampino this morning at 8am. At 10.45 he picked up the boy accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin and left for Italy. Everything went smoothly, Joerg Martienssen, spokesperson for Frankfurt airport services, underlined to La Presse.

In the next few days the guarantee interrogation with the Venice investigating judge will be held and only then will he be able to have a meeting with his parents. In the meantime, there are many elements supporting the thesis of premeditation: the scotch found in the boy’s car and probably used to immobilize Giulia had been ordered online 48 hours before the crime.

The hours that followed the report of disappearance by the student’s father, initially classified as voluntary removal, are also being explored: from the reports it clearly appears that Gino said he was “concerned for his safety”. Finally that phone call to 112 from Vigonovo at 11.15pm on Saturday 11 November reporting an argument and not followed by the dispatch of a patrol. Today the name of Giulia Cecchettin resounds in the Italian squares: there are many demonstrations throughout the country. «Speak, report, trust!» Gino Cecchettin, Giulia’s father, posted a red ribbon this morning, on the occasion of the national day against violence against women.