A tragedy almost announced. Giulia Cecchettin had spoken about her fears towards Filippo Turetta, ex-boyfriend and confessed murderer, to one of her best friends, Giulia Zecchin. The 22-year-old and Giulia’s peer told ‘Chi l’ha visto?’, a Rai3 program hosted by Federica Sciarelli, a disturbing episode: “We met on Friday 3 November and she told me that a few days earlier she had met with Filippo in an ice cream shop in Padua and he had reformulated this request to get back together. Obviously, as every time, she had refused, because for her she had to be satisfied with the fact that they were friends, and when Giulia refused he had a rather disproportionate reaction. He stood up and slammed his hands on the table, reacting in a way that Giulia described to me as ‘Luckily we were among other people, because I was scared’. He got angry because he felt rejected again.”
In the December 13th episode of the Rai program Zecchin recounts other phrases from Turetta to Giulia: “He told her that he couldn’t live without her, that his life without her was over, that he would end it because it couldn’t go like this.” come on, going to university without her no longer made sense. So she felt guilty.” We then talk about what happened in the days before the murder: “They had made peace like every time, I think there had been other such serious arguments and she hadn’t told me about it, or I don’t know, but then he with his usual phrases had made her retrace her steps. The feelings of guilt had returned and she was afraid for him.”
Finally we talk about the fatal evening, that of the violence and the beginning of the escape, which culminated with the arrest in Germany and the discovery of the body almost simultaneously: “I don’t know why that evening she decided to go out with him, I didn’t even know . In my opinion he had asked her to see each other, as happened every week and she, exhausted by her requests, said ok and told her to accompany her to pick up her clothes for her graduation. In my opinion she hadn’t told me – explains Giulia Zecchin – because that day when she told me she was scared I had told her not to go out together anymore and end any kind of relationship with him, because it was becoming dangerous , he would never have ended it, I had told her this several times. When you’re inside it’s difficult to realize things, you’re oppressed by guilt and you start to live in a reality that isn’t true. He was worried about his degree, she would have started a new life by moving away from him.”
