“I killed her with a hammer” – Corriere.it

“I took the hammer and hit her. I killed and am willing to die for what I did. Suleiman Adams only speaks English, despite having been in Italy for a few years. It is around 10.25 pm when the 32-year-old Ghanaian shepherd enters the Pergine Valsugana police station and confesses. More than 14 hours have passed since the chilling crime, since, on Tuesday morning, he grabbed the hammer resting on a radiator and beat Agitu Ideo Gudeta, the 43-year-old businessman from Ethiopia, known and esteemed throughout Trentino. , brave and strong woman, owner of the farm “La capra felice”, which she founded in the Mocheni valley. The woman was murdered in the bedroom of her apartment on the second floor of the former rectory of the Municipality of Frassilongo. She was found at the foot of the bed, supine, without pants, by neighbors, concerned about her prolonged absence.

“We thought he was ill given the Covid period and we went up shouting his name, but we got no response – says Maura Menzietti, slowly lowering her voice. As the door was ajar, we went in and saw the Christmas tree, then Alberto took the cell phone and lit the room with the flashlight. He turned to me, indicating that she was dead. Five, six shots to the head, as confirmed by an initial examination of the body yesterday afternoon, killed Agitu. Suleiman, arrested at night for voluntary murder, does not try to justify himself, in front of the police, he tells the chilling truth, those terrible minutes inside the house. The weight of the terrible gesture and the consciousness of not being able to back down. “I wanted to kill myself because of what I did, but I didn’t find the poison with which I wanted to commit suicide. At this moment I prefer to die ”, he explains to the soldiers who have listened to him. A detailed and shocking story that the Ghanaian pastor repeated even in front of the deputy prosecutor Giovanni Benelli. Sitting next to the interpreter and his lawyer, Fulvio Carlin, the young man continues speaking. He tells minute by minute the tragic morning that began with a coffee that was prepared in the kitchen of Agitu’s house. And then that worry that had plagued him for a long time: a back salary that the Ethiopian breeder would not have paid him. He needed the money for his two children in Ghana. This was enough to unleash the murderous rampage. Before, as the neighbors confirm, there had never been fights. The man, who came to Italy, to Lampedusa, aboard one of the many ships of hope along the route from Africa to Europe, had already worked for the breeder, then about two months ago they called him, but he was missing one. salary. Unpaid arrears, perhaps a thousand euros or less, and according to the pastor’s story, repeatedly requested. “I have been asking her for the money that she owed me for the work done for a long time,” she says, “but she has always refused to give it to me”. The man talks about messages, regular phone calls. On Tuesday morning the pastor, who lives in a room on the ground floor, below the apartment that Agitu occupied, went up to the woman’s house, to which he had the keys, to make coffee. It is 7.30. He sees her and asks for the money again. “As always, he ran into the bedroom,” he says. They did not see each other often because they worked different hours and Suleiman spent most of the day in the stable with his goats, the same one the carabinieri found him in. After the cup of coffee, drunk quickly, the man returned to his room to get his dirty clothes and to do a washing machine. So he went up the second time, saw Agitu, and asked for the money again. Then anger rose and he seized the hammer, then he threw it into the cellar along with the bloodstained jacket. The pastor in the middle of the night also confessed to having made a gesture of autoeroticism, which he says he cannot explain. For the carabinieri it would be an act of contempt, to humiliate the woman.