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Monday, August 18, 2003

This is from The Copenhagen Post, 14 august 2003.

A young Italian tourist was murdered and is the latest victim in a long list of violent assaults.
Copenhagen's reputation as a safe and peaceful place to visit lay in tatters this week, as police hunted for the murderers of a young Italian backpacker who was savagely stabbed to death in the Norrebro district of Copenhagen over the weekend.

Witnesses said that he became involved in a violent confrontation with two youths, possibly as the victim of a mugging. He was stabbed in the ribs.

After struggling free, Giurra ran towards a taxi stopped at the Blogardsgade-boulevarden junction.

He showed the taxi-driver his bloody stab-wounds and pleaded with him to call the police.Three young passengers in the taxi claimed they did not have a mobile phone - which later proved to be false - whilst the taxi driver said he was unable to summon assistance, 'because his radio wasn't warmed up.'

Giurra continued along Aboulevarden. Once again, he was confronted by his attackers who, this time, stabbed him repeatedly until he collapsed in a pool of blood.

Although paramedics managed to keep him alive, Giurra died in hospital the next day.


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