An 18-year-old woman was stabbed to death near Bergamo Friday night and a 19-year-old male acquaintance was arrested after he confessed to the crime Saturday as Italy’s wave of femicides continued.
The Italian national, Sara Centelleghe, a student who was set to turn 19 next week, was killed in Costa Volpino, in the province of Bergamo.
The young man, who has not yet been named but is known to be of Indian origin, was questioned at a local Carabinieri barracks.
The man lives in a flat in a building close to that of the victim.
He has been charged with murder.
The body was found early Saturday in an apartment.
Initial findings suggest it was not a robbery that went wrong and ended in murder.
Investigators are investigating in particular among the victim’s acquaintances.
Police said she was at home with a friend of her own age Friday night.
The friend went out to get drinks at an automatic distributor around quarter past one in the morning and when she came came back found Centelleghe stabbed to death
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She was a student at a professional nursing institute at Lovere near Bergamo.
There have been over 90 femicides in Italy in 2024, five of them in the last week alone, the interior ministry said Friday amid the first appearance in court of Filippo Turetta, a young man who has confessed to the brutal murder last year of his 22-year-old former girlfriend Giulia Cecchettin in a case that shocked Italy and highlighted its problem with femicide and gender-based violence, which is showing a slight decrease but is still at near-record levels.
Source: Ansa News Agency