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After the rejections started rolling in, Nan Zhong tried to figure out what had gone wrong.

"It was incredible. I'd had so many rejections along the way," he says.

The father of Giulia Cecchettin, who was also 22 when she was killed by her ex-boyfriend, told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that there are "entire generations of men who don't accept rejection".

The couple lodged an appeal with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal after the visa rejection in 2023, and have been waiting for the past two years for an outcome.

For decades people here have been raised on a rejection of military might, acutely aware of Germany's past role as the aggressor in Europe.