Lipari in turmoil over stabbing

stabbed an elderly woman was killed on the first island in 56 years. Now residents fear that the killer lived among them

Islanders entering the church to hear a tribute to his neighbor brutally murdered waiting to hear kind words resounding priest in robes of purple. But the father of Peppino Mirabito was a warning.

"I hope that the murderer gave the law as soon as possible," said the priest at the altar flanked by the police chief and the mayor. "All we have to close ranks with the police."

before him, next to a crib decorated with local oranges, put the coffin with flowers Biviano Eufemia, wife of 62 years, who was stabbed to death on Christmas Eve - The murder victim first time in the idyllic island of Lipari in the Mediterranean 56 years.

outside the church full, some hundreds of people in shock that he had been unable to find a space inside turned to look through dresses Lipari bougainvillea track that fall on the black sand beaches and clear waters that attract thousands of tourists every year. Some noted the White House Biviano is a track on an embankment near the church. Always wash swing in line behind the scene of the crime police tape.

described as a species, the female private, not enemies, Biviano worked for years as a cleaner place to save money for the renovation of the house and garage, which had enough space for your Fiat 500. Police found there late on Christmas Eve, the car behind the neck pierced by a knife.

"This is one happy island, and the murder feels like the end of the world for us," said Mayor Mariano Bruno. "Here, people leave their keys in the ignition and the doors open."

But that changed, according to Biviano neighbor, Mary Corrieri. "We closed the doors and I have not slept since his death," he said.

last murder of the island was in 1955 when a woman was murdered and thrown into a well. Since then, the natural beauty of Lipari helped become a resort for the rich, the Italians, like their ancestors came here to Imperial Roman Baths.

Part of the chain

eight Aeolian Islands north coast of Sicily, Lipari is known to neighbors as Stromboli and Vulcano geologically unstable, where the surf is heated sulfur bubbles appear between the stones.

find fame as the winner of an Oscar

Il Postino

was filmed in the Aeolians, the islands became a summer retreat for the organization of major Russian oligarchs and yachts designers such as Giorgio Armani, Domenico Dolce and Gabbana Steffano, leaving in the way of Capri to Sardinia.

• However, the winter population of 11,000 Lipari ended last week against a cold wind that swept the empty port, where two dogs sleeping, a man who sold the squid in a van and a group of people hanging waiting for the next ferry to make the newspapers and the provisions of Sicily.

singles without children, was seen the morning shopping at the port of Biviano Christmas Eve, before she goes to her village of Quattropani the other side of the island. As the time approached, the family say she declined the invitation to spend Christmas with them in Salina, the neighboring island, I could see from home.

Later that day his cousin Mary Falanga, who lives nearby, called to offer accompanied Biviano at the midnight mass at church, where much of his funeral was held days later . The two cousins ??were born in homes that were still alive and played together as children. "Her parents died over the years and when my mother died in October was at all times to help," said Falanga, a woman of strong character, with a schedule of face.

Biviano But he answered the phone that night, prompting Falanga and her husband to visit him. "We looked and saw the garage door was locked," he recalls. "Finding the key to the house, opened the door and saw his Fiat and feet."
Colonel Claudio Domizi, the police officer leading the investigation said it was likely that the murderer had locked it after stabbing Biviano.

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