The alleged perpetrator of the murder of Mamadi Tunkara, the head of private security at the Carrefour supermarket who was killed yesterday in the heart of Bergamo's shopping district, confessed at the police station .

The killer allegedly killed him out of jealousy: the victim had started a relationship with his ex-partner.

Tunkara was born in Gambia 36 years ago and lived in Verdello. Everyone called him Lookman, because of his resemblance to the Atalanta footballer. Yesterday he was riding his bike to the supermarket to start his work shift.

When he reached the Pierantonio Cividini passage, a small shopping arcade, he was pushed by a man, fell to the ground and was fatally stabbed. The killer allegedly stabbed him four or five times. The emergency services arrived promptly, but there was nothing that could be done for Tunkara.

The murderer then quickly disappeared, running away towards via Moroni, another street in the centre of lower Bergamo. Then the man, a 28-year-old from Togo, was stopped this morning at the border between Italy and Switzerland where he was trying to escape.

(Online Union)

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