A young Sicilian woman killed in daylight by stalker

The murder of a young Sicilian woman from Staller in daylight has sent shock waves to Italy, where 11 women have been killed since the beginning of the year.

Student at Sarah Campanela University, 22, was killed by a known Monday, acquaintance on Monday afternoon.

Witnesses told the media that they had seen a man -later identified by prosecutors as the 27 -year -old Stefano Argentino -approaches D -Ja Campanella and stabs her on the street. She tried to get out and shout “Stop, let me go, stop it” before it collapses, they said.

A passerby who, according to messages, hears Mrs. Campanella’s screams, tried to pursue the attacker who managed to escape.

D -Ja Campanella died on the way to the hospital. Argentino was arrested several hours later in the nearby city of Noto.

Rafael Leone, the lawyer of G -N Argentino, told the Italian media on Wednesday that his client had acknowledged the allegations against him, but did not explain why he attacked her.

“I can’t say, if he is concerned, he is quite closed,” says the Ansa agency.

The prosecutor of Messina, Antonio d’Amato, said that Stefano Argentino “was persistently and repeatedly” harassed Sarah Campanela since he started university two years ago. He studies to become a biomedical technician.

One of her friends once had to intervene when G -N Argentino continued to complain that I was no longer smiling at him, said G -n D’Amato.

But he added that I did Campanella had never gone to the police, as he did not think that the attention of G -N Argentino was particularly “threatening or pathological”.

In the order to be detention of the police, quoted by the Italian media, prosecutors said that he “regularly annoys the victim, asking her to go out with him and to get to know himself better and to refuse to retreat, even when she refuses him.”

D’amato said that shortly before he was stabbed, d -kampanella sent a message to some friends, telling them that “this sick person is following me.”

Writing on Facebook, G -Ja Kampanela’s mother said that her daughter “boldly thinks that” no “would be enough because (Stefano Argentino) didn’t mean anything to her, they were not together, she just wanted him to leave her alone, she wanted to live and dream and finish.

“You always have to talk and go to the police! Help me give a voice to Sarah,” she said.

In an emotional interview with Italian television, the brother of G -Ja Campanella said that unrequited love or attention could never be the reason for “act like this.”

“There are no excuses and someone like him doesn’t even deserve words.”

Julia Chetin’s father, who was also 22 when she was killed by her ex boyfriendHe told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that there are “whole generations of men who do not accept rejection.”

“Love is not possession, jealousy is not love and saying” no “is right. In the case of Sarah, there was no connection,” said G -N -Cecchetin.

“Women continue to be killed by those who do not accept their rejection. We have to make exceptional efforts, a collective act of rebellion … against this culture of death,” said Mara Carfagna, a former minister and MP.

The issue of violence against women is felt strongly in Italy, where they are often reported by the media. Last month, only four women died from the hands of their partners or former partners.

On Wednesday, less than 48 hours after her death, the murder of Sarah Campanella was pushed out of the titles of the news that the body of 22-year-old Ylaria Sula was found in a suitcase in Rome.

The university student had disappeared last week. According to Italian media, her ex -friend has admitted to her murder.