Murder of Yara Gambirasio

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The investigation following the murder of Yara Gambirasio in 2010 was one of the most extensive in Italian criminal history. In the early evening of 26 November 2010, Gambirasio, a 13-year-old Italian schoolgirl, disappeared after being at the sports centre in her city, Brembate di Sopra, Lombardy, Italy. She had gone there to bring a stereo for a gymnastics competition scheduled for the following weekend. Her body was found on 26 February 2011 in a field near the industrial area of Chignolo d’Isola, 10 km from Brembate. The body, now decomposed, showed multiple deep cuts and a head wound, inflicted when the victim was still alive and not individually lethal. The cause of death was determined as a combination of a head blow, non-lethal cuts, and hypothermia. There was no sign of sexual assault. Yara's funeral was held on 28 May 2011, led by Bishop Francesco Beschi of Bergamo. Initially, a young Moroccan man, Mohamed Fikri, was wrongfully arrested due to a mistranslation of his words. The...

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