Agitu Gudeta proudly displays the goat cheese from her farm La Capra Felice
Italian police today announced the murder of 42-year-old Agitu Ideo Gudeta. A statement said she was killed on her farm in Trentino Region where she raised goats for her cheese business. Gudeta who is from Ethiopia, was popular in the region as a symbol of integration.

The statement noted that a Ghanaian employee killed Gudeta with a hammer. As she was dying the 32-year-old Ghanaian whose name was given as Adams Suleimani, went on and raped her. The police say Suleimani has confessed to killing Gudeta with a hammer and raping her in the process. Suleimani who had been arrested, also confessed to killing the Ethiopian for money.

Gudeta fled Ethiopia in 2010 after participating in a protest against the government for grabbing land from the people. She landed in Italy as a refugee and quickly made the mountains of Trentino’s Valle dei Mocheni her home.

Her enterprising prowess were deplored, taking advantage of laws that permitted farmers access to public land to prevent it from being reclaimed by wild nature. She set up her goat farm, starting with just 15 goats. She went on to make goat cheese and beauty regiments in her farm she named La Capra Felice. By 2018 Gudeta had 180 goats on the farm.

Local and international media reported Gudeta story as an example of a refugee success story in Italy where rising hostility towards immigrants is championed by far right and Neo-facist organisations such as the League Party.

Gudeta in her farm La Capra Felice in this 2018 photograph by Reuters