The team mates of Julia Ituma, the
18-year-old Italian volleyball player who died after falling
from a window in a hotel in Istanbul on Wednesday night in a
suspected suicide, on Friday expressed shock and sorrow at what
happened.
"We would have wanted so much for Julia to have shared her pain
because, in life as in sport, any hurdle becomes easier to
overcome if you face it together, as a team," the Igor Volley
Novara players said in a statement.
"We are unable to come to terms with what happened, we can't
make sense of it.
"Nothing gave a signal that something like this could happen,
otherwise we would have intervened, supporting each other as we
are used to doing every time one of us finds themselves in
difficulty".
Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Friday that Ituma told
her team mates and coach she was not feeling well and wrote
"goodbye" in the team's WhatsApp group.
Ituma was in Turkey for a Champions League match with the team.
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