A 27-year-old Nigerian man was
stopped at Milan's central train station Friday on suspicion of
involvement in the murder and dismemberment of 18-year-old
Pamela Mastropietro near Macerata earlier this month.
Macerata prosecutors said no arrest warrants have so far been
issued.
The man was stopped by Carabinieri after they were given
information by colleagues in Macerata.
They are now taking him back down to the Marche city.
On Thursday sources in Macerata said after Mastropietro's
autopsy that a Nigerian pusher accused of complicity in her
murder and dismemberment gave her an "extremely modest" dose of
heroin.
Desmond Lucky is nonetheless suspected of giving the woman,
who had been in a drug rehab centre near Macerata and had not
been using for four months, a fatal dose.
Lucky is accused of complicity with another Nigerian,
Innocent Oseghale, in homicide, disposing of and disrespecting a
body in the case of Mastropietro, whose remains were found in
two suitcases at Pollenza outside Macerata.
It is has not been established if the young woman died of an
overdose or was murdered, allegedly by Oseghale, in whose home
bloodstained knives were found.
Prosecutors said Thursday the initial findings of an autopsy
on Mastropietro had produced "no significant evidence" of how
she had died.
But Italian media reported Friday the autopsy had shown she
was hit on the head before being murdered.
The autopsy found that blood and urine were missing from the
remains, which had been sliced up in an "apparently scientific"
way.
Further lab tests will be made next week, prosecutors said.
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