Dead Agitu Gudeta, Ethiopian shepherd symbol of integration. Investigate for murder

Rome, December 29, 2020 – Found dead Agitu Gudeta. The 42-year-old woman of Ethiopian origin had long lived in Trentino. A symbol of integration, Gudeta was found lifeless in her home in the Mocheni valley, where she had started a farm, ‘La Capra Felice’, in Frassilongo. According to the initial information it would be a murder. In the woman’s body there would be injuries attributable to a violent act. The investigation would focus on a young African employee of the company. The man allegedly had disagreements with Agitu for financial reasons. The woman was reportedly beaten with a hammer, including on the head, which was later found.

Agitu Ideo Gudeta, the ‘queen of happy goats’, dies

The alarm ai carabinieri was given by some neighbors, called by a man who was supposed to have a date with the woman in the afternoon, but Gudeta she did not show up for the appointment. On the ground the police, the coroner and the magistrate.

In 2010, Agitu had arrived in the province of Trento after having fled her native Ethiopia amidst social conflict. The woman had also been threatened by her government. Gudeta had undertaken so much the activity of shepherd that he founded the farm ‘La Capra Felice’ which today has 180 heads.

Agitu had been renamed as ‘the queen of happy goats’, in that corner of the mountain where he began to raise 15 native goats. In August 2018, he had received threats and suffered a racially motivated aggression – “Dirty black you have to go”, according to the press – by the man who lives in the neighboring cabin. Last January, the perpetrator of the violent acts, who also attacked the Malian cheesemaker who helped Agitu, was sentenced to nine months for injuries by the Court of Trento, while the charge of stalking for racial discrimination was dropped. fall, contrary to what the prosecutor had requested.

Last June in the middle of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic COVID-19, Gudeta had opened the first one in Piazza Venezia in Trento ‘Happy Goat Workshop’. On that occasion the pastor said, “We must not stop, with dreams we build our future.

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