German police arrest Italian student on the run suspected of kidnapping and murdering his ex-girlfriend who was found with multiple stab wounds in a ditch

• Filippo Turetta, 22, was found in his car in Germany following a week-long search
• Comes after body of his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin was found on Saturday

Police have arrested an Italian university student on the run in Germany who allegedly kidnapped and murdered his ex-girlfriend. 

Filippo Turetta, a 22-year-old student from Padua, was found in his car near Leipzig in Germany following a week-long search by Italian authorities, his lawyer, Emanuele Compagno, told Italy’s Ansa news agency.

Giulia Cecchettin, a fellow student and Turetta’s former girlfriend, went missing last weekend when she had been due to receive her degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Padua.

Her body was found on Saturday in a gully near Lake Barcis, about 120 kilometres north of Venice, her head and neck punctured with stab wounds.

Turetta was arrested by German police later that day after his car ran out of petrol and he parked with his lights off on the emergency lane of a motorway near Leipzig.

Filippo Turetta, 22, has been arrested while on the run in Germany after allegedly kidnapped and murdered his ex-girlfriend. Pictured Filippo and his ex-girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin, 22

Giulia went missing last weekend when she had been due to receive her degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Padua

Filippo was found in his car near Leipzig in Germany following a week-long search by Italian authorities, his lawyer, Emanuele Compagno (pictured), told Italy ‘s Ansa news agency

Giulia’s body was found on Saturday in a gully near Lake Barcis, about 120 kilometres north of Venice, her head and neck punctured with stab wounds. Filippo Turetta, was later found in his car near Leipzig in Germany

The suspect ‘will be back in Italy within 48 hours to answer for his actions’, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.

Police got a lead earlier this week after video cameras near Cecchettin’s home captured images of Turetta attacking her on November 11, before fleeing with her in his car, news reports said,

The president of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, said a day of mourning would be set for the day of Cecchettin’s funeral.

‘I think that on the day of the funeral it is right that in schools we talk about femicides,’ Zaia told Rainews24, while acknowledging that education was ‘not enough’ to stamp out femicide.

‘We really need to start teaching our young people, from early childhood, to respect women, their sisters, mothers and schoolmates, because that’s how we’ll change things,’ Tajani said.

Ms Cecchettin’s murder is the latest femicide case recorded this year in Italy, where dozens of women have been killed at the hands of their husbands or partners. 

In the year to November 12, there have been 102 murder cases with female victims in Italy, 82 of whom were killed by family members or current or former partners, according to the interior ministry.

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