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Agitu Ideo Gudeta, who was brutally abused before he was assassinated, came to Italy in 2010 and was hailed as a refugee success story.
An Ethiopian refugee who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, was killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said Wednesday.
A Ghanaian employee at her farm in the Trentino region of northern Italy admitted to killing 42-year-old Agitu Ideo Gudeta with a hammer and raping her, Italian news agency Ansa reported.
The report could not be immediately confirmed.
Gudeta had made her home in the mountains of Trentino’s Valle dei Mocheni, making goat cheese and beauty products on her La Capra Felice (Happy Goat) farm, which was built on previously abandoned land.
His story was reported by numerous international outlets, including Reuters, as an example of a refugee success story in Italy at a time of growing hostility towards immigrants, driven by the right-wing Liga party.
Gudeta escaped from Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, in 2010 after his involvement in protests against “land grabbing” angered local authorities.
The activists accused the authorities of setting aside large tracts of agricultural land for foreign investors.
Upon arriving in Italy, he was able to use communal lands in the northern mountains to build his new business, taking advantage of permits that give farmers access to public lands to prevent local territory from being reclaimed by wild nature.
Starting with 15 goats, he was 180 in 2018 when he became a well-known figure.
“I created my space and made myself known, there was no resistance for me,” he told Reuters in an article that year.
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