(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 30 - Police in the night between Thursday
and Friday arrested a 31-year-old Italian man suspected of
murdering Sharon Verzeni near Bergamo on the night of 29-30
July.
Bergamo prosecutor Maria Cristina Rota probing the murder said
Friday that the man has confessed to committing the murder.
"Tonight, at the end of a very intense investigation, we were
able to identify the man on the bicycle" portrayed by security
cameras near the crime scene as he was rushing away from the
area.
The suspect. "when questioned, fully confessed" the murder of
Sharon Verzeni, said Rota.
According to investigative sources, the arrested suspect,
identified as Moussa Sangare, who was born in Italy to parents
from the Ivory Coast, said he had a "sudden raptus" and killed
Verzeni, whom he apparently didn't know.
"I can't explain why it happened, I saw her and killed her", he
is reported to have told the police.
Born in Milan, Sangare, 31, is unemployed and lives in Suisio,
a town just a few kilometres away from Terno d'Isola where the
murder was committed.
Prosecutors requested his arrest over fears he might reiterate
the crime, hide evidence or run away.
Carabinieri police investigating the fatal stabbing of Verzeni
had examined images of surveillance cameras in the area in
efforts to identify him.
He allegedly committed the murder without an apparent motive.
The stabbing was not connected to a rape attempt, a robbery nor
was it drug-related or had anything to do with the Scientology
courses the victim allegedly attended, investigators said.
Prior to the arrest, police questioned Verzeni's boyfriend
Sergio Ruocco on several occasions but he was not placed under
investigation.
Ruocco is now living with Verzeni's family who have always
insisted she was murdered by a stranger.
On Friday, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini,
leader of the League party, commented the arrest in a post on
social media: "Moussa Sangare detained, North African origins
and Italian citizenship, suspected of having killed poor Sharon.
"I hope light will be shed as soon as possible and, in case he
is guilty, an exemplary sentence, without leniency.
Congratulations to the Carabinieri!", concluded Salvini. (ANSA).
Man arrested over Verzeni murder 'has confessed'
Prosecutor says Moussa Sangare admitted to killing woman