A 49-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her partner in their home in Cologno al Serio, in the province of Bergamo. She is the twelfth victim of femicide recorded this year in Italy, the third in March alone.
The murder took place today, Thursday 28 March, around 2.00 pm at number 19 in via Donizetti. Both the victim and the alleged killer are Nigerian nationals. The 45-year-old man has already been arrested by the Carabinieri of the Treviglio command. According to some rumours, the victim's partner suffered from mental problems.
As reports the portal Bergamo News, on Tuesday 26 March a neighbor reported having seen the woman crying in the courtyard of the building: “The police were also there”. Apparently, but it has not yet been clarified, due to problems related to the rental of the apartment.
However, the reasons for the murder are not yet known: the two were at home alone at the time of the attack. Unfortunately the rescue efforts were in vain, the victim in fact died due to the wounds inflicted by her husband. According to the newspaper The Echo of Bergamothe crime would be happened at the height of an argument that broke out after lunch in the apartment where the couple had lived for four years, without children.
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