On the streets the Italians after the brutal murder of two 22 -year -old students within 48 hours
In Italy there have been calls for « cultural uprising » amid anger and protests for the murder Two students found within 48 hours from each other.
These two murders have raised the number of women in the country from the beginning of the year to 11.
The two students
OR Sarah Campanella, A 22 -year -old biomedical student stabbed a bus stop in the Sicilian town of Messina on Monday afternoon and died while being taken to the hospital.
Sarah Campanella and 27 -year -old Argentino who confessed that she killed her
Stefano Argentino, a colleague at the University of Messina, was later arrested in Noto. His lawyer, Raffaele Leone, told the Italian press that the 27 -year -old Argentino confessed to the murder.
Messina’s prosecutor Antonio d’Amato claimed that Argentino had « persistently and repeatedly » harassed Campanella since she began her university courses two years ago.
In a special assassination, the corpse of 22 -year -old Ilaria Sula, a student statistics student at Sapienza University in Rome, was found in a suitcase in a forest area outside the Italian capital early Wednesday morning. He had disappeared on March 23 and allegedly stabbed to death.
Her ex -boyfriend, Mark Samson, 23, is questioned by police as a suspect for her murder and a corpse.
Ilaria Sula also 22 years old
On the streets the world
The murders caused protests in Messina, Rome and other Italian cities, including Bologna, on Wednesday night. And yesterday there were further events.
Antonella Polimeni, Rector of Sapienza University, said that Sula’s death was a « heinous and brutal gynecopy that leaves us speechless and crushed ». He added: « We should no longer monitor the incidents of female. »
At the University of Messina a minute’s silence was held for Campanella. Giovana Spatari, the rector of the University, said the students were « overwhelmed by this many episode of female ».
The murders also rejuvenated the political debate on violence against women in Italy, where 113 female female was recorded in 2024, of which 99 were committed by relatives, comrades or former comrades.
‘Cultural uprising’
Mara Carfagna, secretary of the center -right party Noi Moderati, called on a « cultural uprising ». « From a regulatory point of view, Italy is more advanced than other countries, but culturally we have not managed to evolve at the same speed, » he told La Stampa.
« That’s why we need a uprising that everyone will share, » he said.
In March, the government of Georgia Mellono approved a draft law that introduced a legal definition of female law on criminal law, punishing it with life imprisonment, while increasing penalties for crimes such as harassment, sexual violence and sexual violence.
The law followed the intense reaction of public opinion to the assassination of Julia Tseketin, a 22 -year -old student murdered by her ex -boyfriend, Philip Toureta, in November 2023. Toureta was sentenced to life in prison.
A group of opposition Democratic Party MPs argued that a « sharp prevention action » is now needed to stop this « constant slaughter of women », starting from school education.
