(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 20 - Italy registered its 104th femicide of the year Monday as a 50-year-old Romanian man was arrested in the rape and murder of a 70-year-old German woman near Perugia in Umbria in December of last year.
    The victim was Marielle Soethe, a German citizen who had lived for many years in the upper Tiber Valley, at Citerna.
    A measure of pre-trial detention in prison has now been carried out for voluntary homicide and sexual assault against the Romanian, who has been residing in Italy for some time.
    The woman, on December 1, 2022, was found dead in her home by the Carabinieri who had been alerted by a friend of hers worried about not having had contact for several days.
    photo: a demo against femicide in Brescia (ANSA).