Elena Cecchettin writes to her sister: “I’m looking for you, forgetting that you’re no longer here”
There International Day against Gender Violence of November 25th and the demonstrations in Rome, Milan and other parts of Italy, have taken on an even stronger and more symbolic value this year due to the recent murder of Giulia Cecchettin.
demonstration against gender violence
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“We are 500 thousand” proudly claim the organizers of the Rome procession Not one less. A long fuchsia tide which cut off the city center from Circus Maximus in San Giovanni. “Today the males are behind” the various souls of the demonstration shouted from the megaphones, opened by the banner Transfemministe ingovernabili”. Many faces marked by Rosso to remember Giulia Cecchettin and the too many victims of feminicide. “We want each other alive. Against the patriarchy” were some of the slogans shouted during the procession. The mayor of Rome was also on the street Roberto Gualtieri and the secretary of the PD Elly Schlein.
The parade
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To counter a real emergency, with one femicide every three daysAccording to the latest data, thousands of women took to the streets, but also many men and children. They were there Paola Cortellesi than with the success of his film There’s still tomorrowset in post-Second World War Rome with a woman at the center who is the victim of her husband’s violence, has become somewhat of a success symbol of the event. On the street too Anna Foglietta who underlined the importance of taking sons into the streets. At 6pm and until 1am tomorrow Colosseum is illuminated in red a symbolic gesture, like the RAI horse on Viale Mazzini.
the Milanese garrison
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The Roman procession of 25 November was preceded by a garrison in Milan in Largo Cairoli from which a spontaneous procession then set off towards the Duomo. Around 30 thousand people gathered in the streets against violence against women and gender-based violence. Among them too Chiara Ferragni who was moved during the various speeches from the stage and had a sign that read “We Should all be feminists”. The names of the various victims of recent months were read from the stage in Milan. Mayor Beppe Sala was also present in the square.
Elena Cecchettin’s letter
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In the last hours Elena CecchettinGiulia’s sister, has entrusted to Corriere della Sera a letter to remember her sister and the “emptiness I carry inside me when I look for you to tell you about what happens to me, forgetting that you are no longer here”. Elena Cecchettin highlighted the anger in realizing that “your death was caused by an individual who felt authorized to take you away from me. An individual who was not educated in consent, respect and freedom of choice.” Her letter ends with an invitation to a cultural revolution “that teaches respect, education, affection. That teaches to accept no, that teaches that women are nobody’s property”.
Filippo Turetta in prison in Verona
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Meanwhile that individual, Filippo Turetta, arrived in Italy from Frankfurt on a military plane. The 21-year-old was apparently calm throughout the flight, appearing resigned and without making any reference to what happened. He was wearing the clothes he had on at the time of his arrest. Once he landed, the precautionary custody order was formally notified and after completing the formal procedures he left the airport through a lane reserved for emergency and operational vehicles of the Venice airport. The boy in a car escorted by five police cars and two motorbikes reached the Verona prison, where he was placed in a single cell in a secure area for new inmates. Considered at high risk of suicide, he was visited by a psychologist.
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