Filippo Turetta accused of killing university student Giulia Cecchettin in case that has ignited calls for cultural change
A major femicide trial has opened in Italy, after the brutal murder of a university student by her ex-boyfriend that triggered outrage and national soul-searching over the roots of male violence against women.
The stabbing in November of Giulia Cecchettin, 22, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Padua, cast a grim spotlight on femicide in Italy, where the vast majority of victims are killed at the hands of their current or former partners.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/23/trial-begins-into-italian-stabbing-that-has-cast-grim-spotlight-on-femicide
Author : Agence France-Presse in Rome
Publish date : 2024-09-23 17:07:11
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