'Day of truth' for Turetta-Cecchettin murder

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 1 - Friday will be the 'day of truth' for the alleged murder of Giulia Cecchettin by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta as an autopsy on the 22-year-old Padua university student's body takes place in Padua and her 21-year-old fellow former student appears before a Venice prosecutor in a Verona prison and may shed light on her multiple alleged stabbing and vain attempts to defend herself.
    Prosecutors are awaiting Turetta's appearance before prosecutor Andrea Petroni in Verona to decide whether to up his charge from homicide to premeditated murder based on his testimony and tests on his car, which has been brought back form Germany where he was arrested on a highway near Leipzig on November 19.
    Meanwhile, 100 kilometres away at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Padua, the autopsy on Cecchettin's body may shed light on the modalities of the terrible attack on the student, who fought to defend herself.
    Turetta, a biomedical engineering student on the same course as his ex, has confessed to the murder.
    In the meantime, Cecchettin's father and sister, through their lawyers, continue to collect testimonies from those closest to her, who report a fear of her ex-boyfriend's behaviour and a "persecution".
    The bloody case has reignited protests against a wave of femicides sweeping Italy. (ANSA).