Cecchettin murder: Prosecutor appeals sentence, seeking to recognize aggravating circumstances for Turetta.

Despite Filippo Turetta has renounced his right to appeal the sentence, declaring in a letter to the Assize Court that he accepted the sentence without asking for mitigating circumstances, The Venice Prosecutor's Office has decided to proceed with the appeal process anyway.

The goal is obtain recognition of the aggravating circumstances of cruelty and stalking, excluded in the first instance by the Assize Court of Venice. Attorney General Federico Prato and Deputy Attorney Pasquale Mazzei will appear before the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Mestre on 14 November.

La life sentence, pronounced on December 3rd, will remain unchanged: is the maximum penalty provided for by the law and cannot be increased. But the possible According to the Cecchettin family's lawyers, the recognition of the aggravating circumstances would have an important symbolic meaning, linked to the full recognition of the gravity of the facts.

According to the prosecution, the number of stab wounds, approximately 75, and the young man's obsessive behavior would configure the extremes of cruelty and persecution. The Assize Court, however, had excluded these circumstances: the stab wounds, he wrote in his reasons, were not inflicted to inflict suffering, but due to the defendant's "clumsiness"; and it couldn't be called stalking because Giulia, despite receiving intrusive messages, continued to visit him freely.

The appeal, therefore, It does not aim to change the penalty but to redefine its legal meaning and morality of murder which shook the country.