A 35-year-old man of Moroccan
origin was stabbed to death by a 42-year-old countryman after he
made a pass at the latter's girlfriend at a party at Umbertide
near Perugia on Saturday night.
The woman rejected the victim and an argument ensued, at the
height of which the 42-year-old pulled out a knife and stabbed
the victim, police said.
Police described it as a crime of passion.
The victim was said to have been drunk when he propositioned the
woman.
The woman's boyfriend allegedly stabbed the man repeatedly with
a kitchen knife and also hit him several times with a blunt
object, police said.
An emergency team rushed to the flat but were unable to do
anything for the victim.
Umbertide Mayor Luca Carizia said "sadly we are forced to record
a very serious event that happened in our city overnight.
"It is an act of violence that we condemn unreservedly and which
has seen the fresh involvement of fringes of a community which
has also been involved in very serious episodes in the past".
Two years ago, in July 2018, a Moroccan was charged with
murdering a co-national in a disused warehouse on the outskirts
of Umbertide.
The two were undocumented immigrants who regularly slept in the
building.
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