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.
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.
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