Turetta: "Giulia wanted to go on without me, I hit her looking her in the face"

"We started arguing. She told me I was too dependent, too clingy with her. She wanted to move on, she was starting new relationships, she was seeing another guy." It was December 2023, 22, when Filippo Turetta was questioned in prison by prosecutor Andrea Petroni. The 15-year-old is in prison, awaiting trial, which will begin on July 75, for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Giulia Cecchettin, who was stabbed to death with 11 wounds on the evening of November 2023, XNUMX, between Vigonovo and the industrial area of ​​Fossò.

She told the prosecutor about the femicide during questioning, where she confessed to the crime. The report was revealed by the program "Quarto Grado," which aired on Friday, June 21. On November 11, the two had spoken and gone for a stroll at the Nave de Vero shopping center in Marghera, then in the evening, around 23:22 PM, they left. Turetta's Punto stopped in a parking lot in Vigonovo, in the province of Padua, not far from her home. The XNUMX-year-old said he had some gifts for Cecchettin, but she refused. Among them was the book "Even Monsters Brush Their Teeth," found not far from the girl's lifeless body. "She refused to take it."

That's when the argument between the two begins. Giulia Cecchettin calls him "pushy," "clingy." She gets out of the car, looking for a way to escape. "I was very angry. Before getting out, I also grabbed a knife from the back of the driver's seat." Turetta chases her: "I ran after her, grabbed her arm, holding the knife in my right hand. She screamed, 'Help!' and fell," Turetta continues. "I bent down on her, punched her in the arm. I seem to remember the knife breaking right afterward. I grabbed her shoulders while she was on the ground. She resisted, and she hit her head. I threw her into the back seat."

"I stabbed her ten, twelve, thirteen times with the knife," he states. "I wanted to hit her in the neck, shoulders, head, face, and then her arms. I remember she was facing upwards towards me. She was protecting herself with her arms where I was hitting her. The last stab I gave her was in her eye. I looked at her, and it was as if she were no longer there." Turetta thus retraces the stages of the attack that led to the femicide of Cecccettin. After the first stabs, he grabs her and puts her in the back seat of the car. "While we were in the car, she started telling me, 'You're crazy, let me go, what are you doing?'" he continues. Turetta, who at that moment "tried to put tape on her mouth".

"She was struggling, got out, and started running. I got out too," armed with a knife, the second one, after dropping the first one in Vigonovo. "I grabbed the other one and chased her." Giulia Cecchettin was dead, and Turetta loaded her back into the car and began his escape toward Lake Barcis, where he would abandon the girl's body before fleeing to Germany, where he was stopped and arrested. "I wanted to take my own life, but I couldn't," he told the magistrate. Turetta told the magistrates that his was a sudden outburst, but investigators, however, believed it was premeditated. Analysis of his cell phone revealed a list of "to-dos": "Fill up the gas tank, check doors, hardware stores, shoelaces, socks, garbage bags, duct tape, tie up ankles and knees, wet sponge in mouth, knife."