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| Turkish police have found the body of an Italian artist who went missing while hitchhiking in a white wedding dress for peace, officials said on Saturday. Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, was hitchhiking with a friend from her hometown of Milan to Israel and the two separated near Istanbul, shortly before she went missing. Police arrested Murat Karatas, who later confessed that he first raped and killed di Marineo. Turkish people condemned the murder as the leading newspaper Hurriyet wrote "We are ashamed" in the headline. Source |
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| Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, known as Pippa Bacca, was hitchhiking with a friend from Milan, Italy to Jerusalem dressed in wedding dresses as part of what they called "Brides on Tour." Source |
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| Italian diplomatic missions in Turkey and Syria were notified of Bacca's disappearance, but the Italian Foreign Ministry was later notified that Bacca had never entered Syria, Anatolia said. Bacca and her companion, Silvia Moro, departed Milan on March 8, planning on traveling to Tel Aviv by hitchhiking as part of their artistic project called "Brides on Tour." The two, wearing wedding dresses, separated from one another when they arrived in İstanbul on March 19. They were supposed to meet again later in Beirut, each of them following their own route, the agency said. However, no contact was made with Bacca after she sent a voicemail message to her boyfriend in Italy from İstanbul, the agency noted. Bacca's family said their daughter was most recently seen in the industrial town of Gebze, near İstanbul, the Anatolia reported. Source |
