Trento, Ethiopian shepherd Agitu Ideo found dead

Published on: 12/29/2020 10:04 PM

Spilled on the floor, on the bedroom floor, lifeless now. On the body, signs of violence. Agitu Gudeta Ideo, a 42-year-old Ethiopian shepherdess who had lived in Trentino for some time and had become a symbol of integration, was found dead at her home in the Mocheni Valley, where she had started a farm. To give the alarm to the carabinieri, now in the place waiting for the coroner, some neighbors in turn were called by a man with whom the victim had an appointment in the afternoon, to which he had not appeared.

Wounds found in an initial examination on the woman’s body suggest murder. No signs of forced entry were found on the door. Two years ago, the 42-year-old received racial threats.

“Agitu’s story is dramatically that of many, too many women,” writes Agrarian Policy Minister Teresa Bellanova on Facebook. “Investigators will investigate the motives for the murder, justice will follow its course, but today I see above all, as always in the face of femicide, the terrible sign of a raped life, of unprecedented violence that interrupts the parable day after day of beauty , carefully sought, made possible “.

“Pain and bewilderment over the death of Agitu Ideo Gudeta, a symbol of integration, a just woman,” Erasmo Palazzotto tweets, addressing, again via Twitter, “a thought to his loved ones.”