The suspected murderer of a 22-year-old student is extradited to Italy. The High Court in Naumburg (Saxony-Anhalt) announced on Wednesday that it had ordered the 21-year-old Italian detained for extradition. The man was arrested near Leipzig this weekend and is currently in custody in Halle (Saale).
“The German court has ordered the extradition,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote on Twitter (X). “I would like to thank the German judiciary for their swift action, our embassy and the law enforcement authorities who are working tirelessly towards this goal,” Tajani said.
The suspect will remain in custody in Germany until extradition
The court announced that the alleged perpetrator had agreed to the simplified extradition. He will remain in custody until he is handed over to Italian authorities. It was initially not clear when delivery would take place. Italy requested the man’s extradition on Tuesday.
Escape via South Tyrol and Lienz
The 22-year-old biomedical engineering student at the University of Padua was arrested near Leipzig on Saturday evening. His week-long escape, which took him via South Tyrol to Lienz, had kept Italy in suspense. He was temporarily arrested on Saturday evening on the motorway near Bad Dürrenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, after being stranded on the emergency lane of the motorway due to a lack of petrol. Italian authorities had been looking for the man for a week and there was a European arrest warrant for him. He is in a penitentiary in Halle an der Saale. The student and his ex-girlfriend had been missing for a week.
Body found in ravine
The case has been making headlines in Italy for days. Surveillance camera footage showed the 22-year-old attacking the woman of the same age in the parking lot of an industrial area on November 12 and then fleeing with her in his car. His car was located in Lienz, among other places. On Saturday, the woman’s body with numerous stab wounds to the head and neck was found in a ravine near Lake Barcis in the Friulian province of Pordenone.
Source: Krone
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