Protests after student stabbed to death at school in northern Italy, body of missing woman found outside husband’s workplace, and more news from Italy on Tuesday.
Protests after student stabbed to death at school in northern Italy
Protests erupted outside the Einaudi Chiodo technical institute in La Spezia, Northwest Italy, on Monday after 18-year-old Abanoub Youssef was stabbed to death by a classmate.
Students accused staff of not doing enough to prevent the killing, which occurred on the school’s premises on Friday, saying there had been clear warning signs.
There were chants of “close, close” and signs calling teachers “complicit” as demonstrators from schools across the city blocked the school’s entrance.
Prosecutors are reportedly considering charges of premeditated homicide for Zouhair Atif, 19, who said he had committed the crime because the victim had had contact with the girl he was seeing.
The incident has sparked a debate on school violence in Italy, with Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara saying he would consider installing metal detectors in schools with a “serious security problem”.
Body of missing woman found outside at husband’s workplace
The body of 41-year-old Federica Torzullo, who went missing from her home in Anguillara Sabazia outside Rome on January 8th, was found buried near her husband’s workplace on Sunday.
Investigators uncovered her body after noticing a patch of disturbed earth on land next to Claudio Agostino Carlomagno’s earth removal company, Italian news agency Ansa reported.
Carlomagno, the victim’s husband and the father of her 10-year-old son, has been charged with her murder.
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“This is yet another painful case of femicide, touching the hearts of the entire community of Anguillara and Lazio. I hope that justice will take its swift course,” wrote Lazio Region President Francesco Rocca on Facebook.
France’s Depardieu makes peace with Italian photographer
French actor Gerard Depardieu made peace on Monday with an Italian photographer who accused him of assault outside a bar in Rome, which had seen him put on trial.
The 77-year-old star met with Rino Barillari, the 80-year-old dubbed the “king of the paparazzi”, at Harry’s Bar on the chic Via Veneto, the scene of their disputed encounter in May 2024.
“We reached an agreement, and we’re happy with that,” the photographer’s lawyer, Fabrizio Siggia, told reporters gathered outside.
Barillari had alleged that Depardieu punched him two or three times in the head, causing him to fall to the ground, when he tried to photograph him.
With reporting from AFP.