Federica Pellegrini in the Giulia Cecchettin Foundation

(ANSA) – VENICE, NOV 13 – Federica Pellegrini, the former Olympic swimming champion, has joined the board of directors of the Foundation created by Gino Cecchettin in the name of his daughter Giulia. “I’m afraid I don’t see the seeds of violence in the kids, as was the case with Filippo Turetta” Pellegrini told ‘Corriere del Veneto’. The meeting with Cecchettin, she said, immediately developed into empathy, and so the Italian champion will become part of the top management of the Foundation for Giulia, to fight the culture of violence, the oppression of women and gender discrimination. These are fears that Pellegrini explains that she had already internalized when she was expecting her daughter, Matilde. “On the one hand, violence worries me, yes. But I am also convinced – she adds – that we are experiencing the beginning of a women’s revolution in which I believe very much, a revolution so powerful that it will not stop”. But how did the contact with the Foundation for Giulia come about? “Gino called me directly, without intermediaries – Federica replies -, he told me about it, I immediately answered “yes”. Giulia’s femicide had also shocked me due to the cruelty and clarity with which it was committed, in that period I was At the end of my pregnancy, I was thinking about my daughter’s future.” (HANDLE).