Elena Cecchettin’s letter to her sister Giulia

On the day Filippo Turetta, the murderer of Giulia Cecchettin, was brought back to Italy from Germany, with a private flight on the Air Force Falcon to be locked up in the Verona prison, Elena, the victim’s sister posted a letter on social media to remember her. And to ask once again, loudly, for a change, or rather for one cultural revolution.

«This house, which until just over a year ago was too small, now seems so empty, so large and lifeless. Thus the emptiness I carry inside me due to your absence. Thus the emptiness of when I look for you to tell you about what happens to me, forgetting that you are no longer here. The void that your absence leaves inside me is so great, so unbridgeable. The anger is as great as the pain in realizing your absenceyour death, were caused by an individual with a first and last name. An individual who felt entitled to take you away from me. An individual who has not been educated on consent, respect and freedom of choice. So that no one ever has to feel the emptiness that I feel, the excruciating pain that I feel incessantly in the darkness of my room, we must react. There must be a change, a cultural revolution, which teaches respect, education, affection. May it teach you to accept no, may it teach that women are nobody’s property.”

Meanwhile, investigations continue to reconstruct the dynamics of the murder and the controversy over the failure of a police car to intervene despite the report from a neighbor of Giulia Cecchettin.