No mention as to who the perps were so I'll look forward to your comments
ROME (AFP) - A third man has been arrested in the west African archipelago of Cape Verde in connection with the alleged rape and murder by stoning of two young Italian women, press reports said here.
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A 23-year-old tourist guide named as Sandro Santus Rosario is considered the main perpetrator of the double murder at a remote resort on the island of Sal.
A second suspect was described as a mechanic and the third was thought to have played an indirect role in the killings, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported, citing sources close to the investigation.
The chief of Cape Verde's police force, Oscar Tavares, said the three suspects gave no motives for the crime during their preliminary interrogation although Santus Roasario was thought to have been the jilted lover of one of the victims.
The bodies of the victims were buried under several layers of sand and rocks and would probably not have been found if a third Italian woman had not survived the assault, he told Portugal's Lusa news agency.
"The way the bodies were buried leads us to conclude that the crime was premeditated," Tavares said.
The 17-year-old sole survivor of the attack told police she had been left for dead by the assailants and managed to escape while they went about burying their victims, reports said.
Autopsy results reportedly showed that one of the women was still alive when she was buried.
Cape Verde, an arid former Portuguese colony, is located about 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the west of Senegal's capital, Dakar, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Tourism has become increasingly important for the Cape Verdean economy and has been seen by the government as the driving force behind the country's development over the next few years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070211/wl_africa_afp/italycapeverdecrime_070211110911
No mention of the fact that Senegal is 94% Muslim and that stoning is a typical Muslim punishment, of course.
Let's see .... victims are women .... stoned to death .... off the coast of Africa ..... I'll take a wild guess and say ...
Whoring around in foreign countries appears to carry some risk. Good thing these women weren't xenophobes, though.
If this guy was angry at one of the women for having an affair with him and then dumping him, a so-called crime of passion, then this was kind of rough on the other two women. Maybe a hatred of women in general, or a racial motive, as well.
Cape Verde - Italians stoned to death on holiday
scotsman.com (Excerpt) | February 11, 2007 | FRANCES D'EMILIO
Posted on 02/10/2007 7:40:34 PM EST by HAL9000
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