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An immigrant from Ethiopia who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted country, was killed with a hammer on her goat farm. The man who took his life would have admitted the act.
According to Reuters, cited by Agerpres , a Ghanaian employee working on a farm in Trentino, northern Italy, admitted that he raped and beat Agitu Ideo Gudeta, 42, with a hammer, information not yet confirmed.
Agitu, who fled Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa in 2010 amid crackdowns on protests over foreign investors’ access to agricultural land, once benefited from Italy’s policies that allowed farmers to work on abandoned farmland.
Installed on that land in the Valle dei Mocheni, he built a goat farm, reaching 180 heads in 2018 and becoming known for the cheese and cosmetics produced on his farm, La Capra Felice.
His story was presented by the international press as an example of a “success story” of migrant integration, at a time when hostility towards migrants was growing in Italy, spurred by the far-right La Liga.
Agitu was, in fact, the target of a racist assault on the part of a neighbor two years ago, who according to the press later asked her to leave, addressing her with the nickname “stinky black woman.” The perpetrator, who also attacked a Malian collaborator of the Ethiopian, was subsequently sentenced by the Trento court to 9 months in prison for bodily injury, while the accusation of harassment due to racial discrimination was not upheld, Italian media reported. .
Publisher: AA
