A man was arrested by Carabinieri police on Wednesday after beating his former partner to death with a hammer in a street in Castegnato, in the northern province of Brescia.
The alleged attacker, 59-year-old Ezio Galesi, waited for the police to arrive after the brutal murder of Elena Casanova, sources said.
The 49-year-old woman was killed metres away from the car she had just parked, the sources said.
The woman's neighbours called the police.
She was an Iveco worker, an environmental activist and the mother of a 17-year-old girl from her first marriage.
The relationship with her alleged attacker ended a year ago, the sources said.
The homicide is only the latest in a long string of recent femicides in Italy in which women are killed by their current or former partners.
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