Filippo Turetta accused of killing university student Giulia Cecchettin in case that has ignited calls for cultural change
The stabbing in November of Giulia Cecchettin, 22, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Padua, cast a grim spotlight on femicide inThe accused, her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta, 22, did not appear in the Venice courtroom on Monday.
Cecchettin, who was due to graduate just days after her death, was reported missing on 11 November after accompanying Turetta to a mall and never returning home. Turetta was arrested a day later on the side of the road near Leipzig, Germany, after his car ran out of petrol. “Rape culture is what legitimises every behaviour that goes to harm the figure of the woman, starting with the things that sometimes are not even given importance such as control, possessiveness, catcalling,” Elena Cecchettin wrote in the Il Corriere della Sera daily after her sister’s death.
He faces charges including voluntary manslaughter aggravated by premeditation and kidnapping, and others related to stalking and hiding Cecchettin’s body.
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