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Milan Suspect Confesses to Rape and Killing of 19-Year-Old Aurora Livoli

Prosecutors move for pretrial detention, weighing aggravated homicide under Italy's new femicide statute.

Overview

  • Interrogated at San Vittore, Emilio Gabriel Valdez Velazco admitted assaulting and strangling Livoli, saying he thought she was asleep and learned of her death the next day on TV.
  • Preliminary autopsy results indicate manual strangulation, with a fractured hyoid bone confirming the cause of death.
  • Investigators cite surveillance that shows him with Livoli after he attacked another 19-year-old at Cimiano station that night; the survivor escaped and identified him.
  • Milan prosecutors requested custody for aggravated voluntary homicide linked to sexual violence, characterizing him as a serially dangerous offender and evaluating the femicide charge.
  • Judicial filings highlight a failure to update the criminal registry that made him appear without prior convictions despite a 2019 sex-crime sentence, alongside unexecuted expulsion measures.