Thousands of Italians pay their last respects to Giulia Cecchettin, a university student killed by her ex-boyfriend in a case that has triggered nationwide grief and rage at violence against women. The funeral of the 22-year-old at a basilica in Padua, near Venice, has attracted fellow students, public officials and ordinary Italians in a show of solidarity against one of the country's most recent and most shocking episodes of femicide. "As a woman I say that the atrocity in which Giulia died cannot leave annoying feeling indifferent," nurse Gianna Torresin tells AFP, adding that Cecchetin's death was "like losing a granddaughter, a daughter." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES