A Russian woman whose severely
malnourished dead body was found in a suitcase floating in
Rimini harbour last month had asked to be allowed to stay in
Italy to treat her anorexia, sources said Wednesday.
"I'm ill, let me stay here in Italy so I can treat myself,"
27-year-old Katerina Laktionova told officials in February,
sources said.
She successfully obtained a stay permit for humanitarian and
health reasons, sources said.
Police are trying to establish who abandoned her and let her
die of hunger, before putting her into the suitcase and dumping
it in the harbour.
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