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The farm “The happy goat” was the dream of their hope for freedom and cultural integration, but it has become the place where Agitu Gudeta Idea, Ethiopian, has come to a horrible end. He would have turned 43 on January 1. She was found in the bedroom, her head smashed with a hammer in the former rectory of Plankerhoff, in Frassilongo, in the Mocheni valley of Trentino, one side of the Valsugana. For the murder was questioned extensively, and then stopped, Adams Suleimani, a 32-year-old Ghanaian shepherdess who had been employed and the custodian of the company. Located at night in a stable of the company where he had taken refuge, he admitted his responsibility to the police and the magistrate. At the origin of gesture one dispute for economic reasons, broke out in Agitu’s house for an unpaid salary: the man then grabbed a hammer that the victim kept behind a radiator in the house, perhaps to protect himself, hitting her with the head several times until she was left on the ground, lifeless, where she was later found in the afternoon by a couple of neighbors. Then he added a chilling detail: As Agitu lay dying on the ground, he raped her.
Agitu had found his second homeland in Trentino after having fled Ethiopia where he had been. threatened and investigated for commitment against “land grabbing”, or rather the looting of pastoralists’ lands by multinationals. But even in Italy he had to deal with problems of violence, mistrust and integration. “They insult me, they call me ugly black, they say that I have to go and that this is not my place,” he denounced. A local shepherd was sentenced a year ago to 9 months in prison for injuries against him, but acquitted of stalking aggravated by racial hatred. And it was the man himself who was one of the first to be questioned at the Borgo Valsugana police station, after the discovery of the body by a neighbor, who had entered the house because she suspected that Agitu had not shown up for the appointment. with a surveyor, with whom he would have had to discuss the project to expand the farm. But the Italian pastor was able to clarify his strangeness to the murder. Then, through the lawyer Claudio Tasin, he issued a statement: “It is a tragedy. There is no justification for what happened and I say it despite my personal experience ”.
Deputy Prosecutor Giovanni Benelli also addressed Plankerhoff, who is coordinating the voluntary murder investigation together with Prosecutor Sandro Raimondi. The murder of the Ethiopian woman aroused strong emotion in Trentino, where she had become a symbol, not only for her escape from Africa, but also for the environmental and productive recovery project that had developed, starting with the Mochena goat, which the province of Trento had decided to save a few years ago. Agitu had created a highly appreciated business and had recently opened a point of sale in Trento for goat products and organic farming. He had also cultivated a cultural activity of knowledge and promotion of their traditions. He was born and raised in Addis Ababa on January 1, 1978, under the Menghistu regime. After finishing his studies, he came to Italy where he enrolled in the Faculty of Sociology of Trento, where he graduated with a thesis on the rural economy of developing countries. Was when He returned to Ethiopia to pursue a cooperation project with the Boran tribe., nomadic shepherds who live with goats and camels. In 2010 she returned to Trento as a refugee and promised to rescue the endangered Mochena goat.
On his Facebook profile he had recently written: “Merry Christmas to those who come from the south, Merry Christmas to those who come from the north, Merry Christmas to those who come from the sea, Merry Christmas for a new vision and awareness in our hearts.” “The pain for the loss of Agitu Ideo Gudeta is immense,” says Lucía Coppola of the Trentino Greens. “She was a free and intelligent woman, wise and strong. Brave and full of vital energy and positivity. His death is a defeat for our Trentino, a land of welcome and respect. Pain and despair make our hearts clench. A smile faded, the bright African sun. The power and strength of a special person. Love for the land and animals. The meeting of cultures, the intelligence of material knowledge, combined with that of the spirit. An extraordinary sensitivity and a lot of beauty. Our hearts, the hearts of so many women and men of good will, beats for her. And he trembles and suffers this immense injustice ”.
A couple of months ago Agitu had received the Green Flag from Legambiente, for the “determination and passion in carrying out an important example of territorial defense, sustainable entrepreneurship and integration”.
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