2023-11-23 16:39:06
PIERO CRUCIATTI / AFP Protesters hold a banner reading ‘If tomorrow it’s me, if tomorrow I don’t come back, sisters, destroy everything!’ during a demonstration following the suspected feminicide of 22-year-old Giulia Cecchettin, in Milan, on November 22, 2023. A court in Germany said on November 22 it has approved the extradition of a 22-year-old Italian university student arrested in Germany for allegedly kidnapping and killing his former girlfriend. The suspect’s lawyer had identified him as Filippo Turetta, who went missing more than a week ago along with his fellow student and former girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin. In the year to November 12, there have been 102 murder cases with female victims in Italy, 82 of whom were killed by family members or current or former partners, according to the interior ministry. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP)
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Protesters hold a banner reading “If tomorrow it’s me, if tomorrow I don’t come back, my sisters, destroy everything!” » during a demonstration following the alleged feminicide of Giulia Cecchettin, 22, in Milan, November 22, 2023.
ANGER – Schools across Italy observed two minutes of silence on November 22 in tribute to Giulia Cecchettin. Or rather a minute of noise, or “rumore” in Italian. The femicide of the 22-year-old young woman, presumed killed by her ex-partner, created a strong stir throughout the country. As you can see below, the two minutes of silence requested by Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara turned into noise, symptomatic of the anger that is brewing.
It must be said that the sister of the victim herself, Elena Cecchettin, had called the day before for “ for Giulia we do not make a minute of silence, but we burn everything “. In Rome, Bologna, Aosta, Milan and across the country, Italians have shouted their discontent with the 102nd feminicide, according to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, since the start of the year.
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In secondary schools, images show high school and middle school students singing in class or during happenings on the stairs.
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A movement that affects all ages. There Rai thus echoes who, when celebrating her 100th birthday in her rest home, in the province of Treviso, asked for a minute of noise “for Giulia”.
“We are the noise, we are the revolt »
Thousands of people in Piazza VIII Agosto, in Bologna, gathered for the demonstration “ Not one less » (Not one more) against violence against women. “ For Giulia, for everyone. But what silence? We are the noise, we are the revolt “, chanted the demonstrators. In Rome, students burned several sheets of paper with the words “Patriarchy” and “Fascism” written on them.
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Even in the Italian parliament, deputies also made noise to pay tribute to the young woman. The region’s president, Luca Zaia, said a day of mourning would be set on the day of Giulia Cecchettin’s funeral. He also wanted the subject of femicide to be raised in schools. Parliament adopted this week a new law against violence against women.
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This case of femicide has been mobilizing the front pages of the Italian press for several days. Many personalities spoke. Between August 2021 and July 2022, murders of women increased in Italy by almost 16%, according to the Interior Ministry.
German justice announced on Wednesday November 22 the upcoming extradition of Filippo Turetta, a 22-year-old Italian student arrested in Germany and suspected of having killed his ex-partner in Italy. The suspect was arrested on Saturday near Leipzig, in eastern Germany, and placed in pre-trial detention, the court in Naumburg (east) said, without naming him. He will be kept under arrest until he is handed over to Italian justice, he added.
The student from Padua (northern Italy) is suspected of having kidnapped and killed her. On Saturday, the body of Giulia Cecchettin was found in a ravine near Lake Barcis, about a hundred kilometers north of Venice, her head and neck slashed with stab wounds.
The young woman’s death probably dates back to Sunday November 12. Remote surveillance cameras recorded the stabbing which occurred in the parking lot of an industrial zone in the Veneto region.
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