Prosecutors on Friday placed
the husband of Elena Ceste, a 37-year-old mother of four who
went missing in January and whose body was found at the weekend,
under investigation for murder.
Ceste's body was found October 18 in a state of advanced
decomposition by workers cleaning a drainage canal in the
countryside near Turin, not far from the couple's home.
Her husband Michele Buoninconti, a firefighter, reported
her missing on January 24.
"She asked me to pick the kids up from school because she
wasn't feeling well," Buoninconti told police that day.
"I never saw her again".
Ceste had disappeared without a trace, leaving her car, her
cell phone, and her wedding ring behind.
"Violence against women is today's most widespread
violation of human rights," said psychoanalyst Benedetta
Guerrini, a consultant for the Florence Center Against Violence
on Women and Children.
Statistics show that 2,200 women were murdered in Italy
between 2001 and 2012, 70.7% of them by family members or loved
ones, Guerrini said.
"That is an average of 171 homicides a year, or one every
two days," Guerrini said.
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