Fresh femicide victim was French woman, 22

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 9 - A young woman found dead last Friday in a ruined former church in the mountains of the Aosta Valley in a fresh femicide amid a spate of murderous violence against women in Italy was killed at the end of March-start of April and is a 22-year-old French woman, an autopsy said Tuesday.
    The woman, who died from loss of blood after a deep stab wound to the neck, has not yet been named.
    The young woman was wearing a pair of leggings and a sweatshirt, ANSA sources said. Next to her was a packet of marshmallows.
    Blood stains and drag marks were visible on the ground, a sign that the body had been carried inside the former chapel.
    The Aosta public prosecutor's office has opened a murder file on the discovery of the girl's body in the ruined church in the hamlet of Equilivaz, above La Salle. (ANSA).