The shock and emotion in Italy, among teammates and friends, the agony in Istanbul, where the mother Elizabeth and Julia Ituma's aunt had to undergo the painful procedures to get back the body of the young volleyball player who died Thursday as soon as possible for a fall from the sixth floor of the hotel on the Bosphorus where he was staying with his team.
It was a dramatic impact with a reality that was too unimaginable and painful, in search of explanations for a tragedy that unfortunately seems to be the result of a voluntary gesture with increasing clarity.
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The former coach: "He had a very decisive, very direct character, he never had half measures or half words" (ANSA)
Igor Volley Novara "categorically" denies that the young woman wrote 'goodbye' in the team's WhatsApp group
shortly before her death, as reported by the Turkish media, and the teammates claim that they "can't get over what happened: nothing never even hinted that something like this could happen, we would have intervened".
There is remorse for not having understood and enormous regret for Julia's choice "not to share her pain with us".
In fact, the company wants to define "absolutely false the rumors according to which third parties, worried about Julia's condition, contacted some teammates before the tragedy to stay close to her".
Julia Ituma, the prowess on the field of the volleyball player found dead in Türkiye
At the center of attention is therefore the mobile phone
that the young woman used for a long time in the last hours before her death, which would contain traces of the last conversations via voice or chat between the volleyball player and other people.
The smartphone was immediately examined by Turkish investigators who are conducting the investigation into Julia's death, one of the possible keys to understanding something more.
Instead, it will be necessary to wait at least a few days for the results of the autopsy
, which has already been performed at the Istanbul Institute of Legal Medicine.
Times compatible also with the need for the results to be translated into Italian.
The family and the company await the return of the body, which according to the indications of the local authorities should take place shortly, probably as early as Saturday, to define the funeral.
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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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On the other hand , the family members and the team technicians who had remained in Istanbul left already in the afternoon
.
The latter will reunite with the team that had already returned yesterday and which will have a few days to recover from the shock before returning to the field again after the match played on Wednesday night in the Champions League.
The Women's Volleyball League has in fact ordered the postponement of the championship match between Novara and Chieri to April 19, a match entirely dedicated to Julia.
And a moving dedication to the 18-year-old also came from Turkey, from the blue
Alice D'Amato
who won the bronze medal at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
"The medal is also for Julia Ituma, who came to Turkey like me for a sporting dream and unfortunately is no longer there". They broke their silence to explain their grief over the death of the very young volleyball player, Julia Ituma, who she would have turned 19 in October, having fallen from the sixth floor of a Turkish hotel after an away match.
