Julia Ituma, greeting the team in the common chat

Julia Ituma had told her teammates and the coach that she was unwell and would write “goodbye” in the team’s WhatsApp group before falling from the sixth floor of the Istanbul hotel. The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports it, reconstructing the last evening of the Italian volleyball player. And it is on the reconstruction of the last hours of the Igor Novara player’s life that the investigators are working to understand what happened while awaiting the results of the autopsy that was carried out this morning.

The family

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Meanwhile, yesterday the mother and aunt of the girl arrived in Istanbul who played for three years in Club Italia before arriving this year in Novara for her first season in A1. In the next transfer market she saw her directed towards Cuneo where she could play as a starter. His mother Elizabeth has released statements to Repubblica in which she says she does not believe in the possibility of a voluntary gesture but the ongoing investigations all seem to be directed towards the hypothesis of suicide. So far the facts are that Julia Ituma spoke late into the night on the phone with a friend, a former classmate (who will then also send messages to her roommate emphasizing “she’s not calm”), then remained alone in the corridor of the hotel where pictures of the internal circuit they show her wandering and then sitting with her head resting on her legs for quite some time. Around midnight she returns to her room where she finds her partner Lucia Varela and talks to her until half past one when Varela falls asleep. The companion hears nothing, she is awakened by the police who inform her that Julia is dead. Yesterday the team from Novara returned to Italy

Postponed

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Meanwhile, the postponement of game 1 of the playoff quarterfinals between Chieri and Novara which was scheduled for Sunday has been decided. The race will most likely be postponed to Wednesday while race 2 will be recovered between Friday and Saturday