Giulia Cecchettin, for her sister Elena’s lawyer the murder is “aggravated by stalking”

Giulia Cecchettin’s murder is “aggravated by stalking”. According to Nicodemo Gentile, the lawyer of Elena, the sister of the 22-year-old killed, Filippo Turetta has also «proved to be a “nagging harasser”. His behavior, as is emerging from several elements we have already collected, is characterized by multiple and repeated behaviors that describe “hunger for possession” towards our Giulia”.

Against the student, the ex-boyfriend was said to have perpetrated “a psychological siege that had caused the girl to feel a state of disorientation and significant anxiety”. And also «a masterful use of the relationship that pushed Turetta first to perpetrate repeated actions of harassment and control, including through incessant calls and messagesand then, finally, murder, in order to gratify his persecutory will.”

Giulia Cecchettin had left Filippo in August, but he had never resigned himself to it, and it played on feelings of guilt of the girl, as she said in an audio message sent to her friends: «She doesn’t necessarily tell me these things, in my opinion, like blackmailbut they sound very much like that, and at the same time he tells me that the only light he sees in his days are the outings with me or the moments in which I write to him: Filippo plays on feelings of guilt, and therefore this thing, with the fact that I would like to never see him again because I’m starting to tolerate him anymore, it weighs on me twice». Giulia would have liked to break away from him. «I don’t know how to disappear, in the sense that I would really like to disappear from his life, but I don’t know how to do it because… um… Because I feel guilty, because I’m too afraid that he might get hurt in some way».

Meanwhile it already is after the interrogation was concluded, which began shortly after 10 am, before the preliminary judge Benedetta Vitolo. The interrogation lasted about half an hour, and the deputy prosecutor Andrea Petroni was also present. Turetta’s lawyer, Giovanni Caruso, had already anticipated: “We will not present any request for review or a weakening of the measure currently being implemented.”