A woman who was hammered to death in
a northern Italian street by her ex-boyfriend last week was
struck at least 16 times, the autopsy said Monday.
The man was arrested by Carabinieri police on Wednesday after
beating his former partner to death with a hammer in a street in
Castegnato, in the northern province of Brescia.
The alleged attacker, 59-year-old Ezio Galesi, waited for the
police to arrive after the brutal murder of Elena Casanova,
sources said.
The 49-year-old woman was killed metres away from the car she
had just parked, the sources said.
She was an Iveco worker, an environmental activist and the
mother of a 17-year-old girl from her first marriage.
The relationship with her alleged attacker ended a year ago, the
sources said.
The homicide was only the latest in a long string of recent
femicides in Italy in which women were killed by their current
or former partners.
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