Search for missing students: woman's body found in Friuli

2023-11-18 13:06:00

The body of the missing student (22) from Vigonovo near Venice was discovered in a ravine between the area of Lake Barcis and Piancavallo in the Friulian province of Pordenone, as confirmed by the Venice public prosecutor investigating the case, Bruno Cerchi.

European arrest warrant against friend

Venice prosecutors have issued a European arrest warrant for a 22-year-old engineering student, the ex-boyfriend of the missing woman, Italian media reported on Saturday. The man is suspected of murder. He is wanted internationally, including in Austria.

According to investigators, the car of the suspect, who disappeared with his ex-girlfriend a week ago, was registered on Wednesday in Lienz by a license plate reading camera for roadside inspection, reported the Italian news agency ANSA. The Italian police informed their Austrian colleagues. The area of Barcis where the woman’s body was found is on the route that the suspected perpetrator followed when he fled, investigators reported.

Prosecutors are currently reviewing a video that shows the student assaulting his ex-girlfriend. The recordings were recorded by surveillance cameras in a warehouse in the industrial area, not far from Vigonovo, the student’s hometown. It shows the dramatic moments in which the man pounces on the student, attacks her and repeatedly hits her with his fists until she lies lifeless on the floor. Exactly at this point the carabinieri found several blood stains, some hair and also tape with hair hanging on it. You can then see the student driving away in the car with the bleeding woman.

The man he was looking for picked up his ex-girlfriend in Vigonovo late Saturday last week. The two were seen together in a shopping center around 8 p.m. The student sent her last text message to her sister at 10:43 p.m., and her ex-boyfriend’s cell phone was last located at around 11 p.m. in the municipality of Fossó on the Riviera del Brenta – not far from where the young woman was with her family lived.

The two students had been together for a year and a half before breaking up last summer; However, the contact between the two never completely ended. Both families reported missing persons to the Carabinieri on Sunday.