Julia Ituma had told her teammates and coach that she was unwell and texted 'goodbye' in the team's WhatsApp group before tumbling down from the sixth floor of her Istanbul hotel room.
This was reported by the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet which reconstructs the last evening of the Italian volleyball player.
Her roommate, Spaniard Lucia Varela Gomez, said: "We spoke until 1.30. Then I slept. I was informed that she had fallen in the morning."
Meanwhile, an autopsy
was performed this morning at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Istanbul
on the body of Julia Ituma, the 18-year-old Italian volleyball player from Novara who died yesterday after falling from the window of her hotel room, where she was on retreat with her squad.
ANSA learns it.
For the results of the exams, which will also have to be translated into Italian, it will take a few days.
Elizabeth Ituma,
Julia's mother, is returning to Italy
after arriving in Istanbul last night.
Family and club await the
return of the body
, which according to the indications of the local authorities should take place shortly, to define the funeral
Julia Ituma, the prowess on the field of the volleyball player found dead in Türkiye
Novara volleyball "in shock", not training for now
"We are in shock, try to understand".
The responses of the athletes and managers of Novara Volley contacted the day after her return from Istanbul, where the young Italian volleyball player died, are all similar.
The pain for Julia's disappearance is accompanied by the closeness with the young roommate, on social media, however, she is targeted, because it seems impossible to someone that she hasn't noticed anything.
For her, the protection of society is total.
No one in the club wants to think about sports:
no training is scheduled today
and not even a program has been drawn up for the next few days.
Everything revolves around the decisions of Federvolley: on Sunday, at 20.30, match 1 of the quarter-finals is scheduled and Igor Novara should be busy on the Chieri field.
The conditional is a must because everyone assumes that the meeting will be postponed, but at the moment no official communication has arrived.
If the match is played, training will surely resume tomorrow.
We are moving towards the postponement, probably to April 19
, of the women's volleyball match between Chieri and Novara, after the death of Julia Ituma.
This is learned from sources in the women's volleyball league.
ANSA Agency
Ituma, from Bovisasca to volleyball, the sad story of 'Titu' - Sport
From a small oratory in Bovisasca to the Champions League with Novara, through the national youth teams with which he had won the European Under19 gold in 2022 as mvp.
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The Novara volleyball fans, shocked and in press blackout
They say they are shocked by the death of Julia Ituma, to the point that, at least until the next match against Chieri, they have decided to shut down the press.
I'm
the official fan base
of Igor Gorgonzola, the Novara volleyball team of which the volleyball player who died in Istanbul was a member.
"The Baluardo Novara - they write on social media as fans - to express their closeness to Julia's family, to the Igor Volley club and to all those who knew our Titu, declares a press blackout until the next match".
Theirs is a faith, as stated in their motto 'Always everywhere' which led them to follow the athletes they call 'igorine' also in Istanbul, where one of the twenty loyalists was present, complete with a banner with the words 'Novara' , which however the Turkish security officers prevented from exposing.
The away fan himself learned of the player's death only the next morning, from the media.
Still baffled
in the next few hours they will meet "to decide all together how to remember Julia".
The social media post contains a photo of the girl and is listed in mourning.