Italian man who stabbed ex-girlfriend greater than 70 instances will get life in jail for homicide | EUROtoday

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A 22-year-old Italian man who confessed in courtroom to killing his ex-girlfriend was convicted of her homicide on Tuesday and sentenced to life in jail in a case that fueled nationwide outrage over violence in opposition to ladies.

Filippo Turetta seemed down as the decision and sentence have been learn in a Venice courtroom slightly over a yr after the physique of 22-year-old Giulia Checchettin was present in a ditch within the northern Veneto area. She had been stabbed greater than 70 instances, and her physique was wrapped in plastic luggage.

Checchettin went lacking final November after going to the mall along with her ex-boyfriend. Her disappearance gripped Italy as authorities looked for them. She was discovered per week later.

Turetta was later arrested in Germany.

The killing fueled calls for for motion to cease violence in opposition to ladies. In the primary 10 months of this yr, 96 ladies in Italy have been killed, 51 of them by present or former romantic companions, in response to Interior Ministry statistics.

Some 10,000 mourners attended Cecchettin’s funeral a yr in the past, ringing bells and shaking keys as a part of a marketing campaign to “make noise” in opposition to gender violence. Her father, Gino Checchettin, urged mourners to be “agents of change” in a tradition that usually “undervalues the lives of women.”