(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 28 - Filippo Turetta, the Padua university biomedical engineering student under investigation for murdering his ex girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin on November 11, wept during an interrogation by a preliminary investigations judge on Tuesday and used the right to remain silent when asked questions, sources said.
    The questioning took place at Verona's Montorio prison, where Turetta arrived on Saturday morning following his extradition from Germany.
    He is being held under 24-hour protection for his own safety and will have no contact with prisoners suspected or accused of other types of crimes.
    He is said to be "quiet" and has reportedly asked for books and to meet his parents after the interrogation.
    On Sunday he met with the prison chaplain.
    Turetta is currently being probed for kidnapping and aggravated voluntary homicide but this could change to premeditation in light of the results of the autopsy on December 1 and examination of the car used by the suspect in the alleged kidnapping and femicide.
    He was arrested near Leipzig in Germany on November 19 after more than a week on the run.
    Turetta admitted to the investigators who stopped him on a highway outside the spa town of Bad Durrenberg near Leipzig that he had "killed my girlfriend".
    The case has shocked Italy, in part because of the age of the victim and the alleged murderer and because of the brutality of the killing. (ANSA).