Filippo Turetta is locked up in a cell in Halle prison, alone (also under surveillance but not in sight) and in the company of his thoughts that resemble torments and his demons.
Those same demons that led him to kill his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin: "We know that Filippo was found in great pain, shaken," Emanuele Compagno, the young man's lawyer, told journalists.
For now, no interrogation: the chief prosecutor of Venice, Bruno Cherchi, explained "if the German procedure was long, we could think about going to hear him in Germany. But we will see about this in the next few days, therefore until he is available to the German police".
“If tomorrow it’s me, if I don’t come back tomorrow, destroy everything. If tomorrow it’s my turn, I want to be the last”: handwritten on a squared sheet of paper that wrapped a small bouquet of white flowers, legible between raindrops trapped in cellophane, this “j’accuse” followed Filippo Turetta to the foot of a secondary entrance to the Halle prison where he has been locked up since Sunday evening for the killing of Giulia Cecchettin.
And where he risks remaining at least a few more days because the discovery of the battered body of his ex-girlfriend, in addition to adding torment to the torment of his parents, is slowing down the rigorous procedures for his "surrender", and not extradition, to Italian justice.
The phrase by Peruvian activist Cristina Torres Cáceres, already used in a message that Elena Cecchettin, Giulia's sister, had entrusted to Instagram stories, attracted the attention of the media all day, keeping their spotlights on until the evening.
Standing out next to the weeds growing on the red bricks of the perimeter wall of the prison in the main city of Saxony-Anhalt, those flowers were one of the few alternatives to the other image of the day: the building of the Oberlandesgericht in nearby Naumburg, where until around three in the afternoon numerous Italian journalists waited for the speaker of this high regional court that will have to decide on the surrender of Turetta.
Spokesman Henning Haberland said in a statement written in German that the Naumburg Public Prosecutor's Office itself should instruct the court to examine the request to hand over Filippo Turetta to Italy.
In the text, and in the unofficial comments made orally by Haberland but protected by repeated “no information”, it is explained that the development of the procedure followed by the Attorney General’s Office cannot be made public nor will official forecasts be made on the time needed for the decision. In theory, since it is a European arrest warrant, a recently introduced institution that has streamlined the long extraction procedures, the deadline is ten days.
The text shows that the Prosecutor's Office has not yet received any request from the Italian Ministry of Justice: and from another source it was learned that, given that Germany is a state of law even if a friend of Italy, the procedures cannot be skipped and the Italian request must be updated with the new title of "voluntary homicide" (and no longer just attempted homicide as it was in the first days of this affair) due to the discovery of the young woman's body last Saturday.
An update that, as explained by the Venice Prosecutor's Office, involves a new appearance of Turetta before the German judges to confirm his willingness to be handed over to Italy also with this new charge.
Article published on November 20, 2023 - 23:18
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