The father of Giulia Cecchettin, a
university student whose brutal murder by her ex boyfriend
Filippo Turetta shocked Italy last year and led to a reckoning
with the rise of gender-based violence and femicide, on
Wednesday said his daughter's memory had been "humiliated" when
Turetta's defence attorney said Tuesday the young man did not
deserve life imprisonment since he was "not Pablo Escobar".
"Yesterday I felt offended again and Giulia's memory was
humiliated", said Gino Cecchettin.
"The defense of a defendant is an inviolable right", he said in
a Facebook post adding however "I believe it is important to
stay within a limit that is dictated by common sense and human
respect".
Escobar was a Colombian drug lord.
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