Italy has experienced yet another femicide, this time involving a man originally from Morocco, who brutally beat and stabbed his ex-partner, the 50-year-old Nadia Khaidar. She suffered for three months in the hospital from horrific injuries before finally succumbing to her wounds.

The suspect, her 44-year-old ex-partner, Redouane Ennakhali, allegedly attacked her three months ago, on July 27. His charge of attempted murder has now been upgraded to murder.

Ennakhali, who has Moroccan origins and has various criminal records, was arrested by the carabinieri of the Bologna Mobile Radio Unit outside the victim’s home in the Santa Viola area, according to Italian newspaper Bologna Today.

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Neighbors had alerted authorities after being alarmed by loud noises and screams coming from the apartment. Authorities found the man in a state of confusion, repeatedly uttering disjointed phrases, including: “I killed her.”

Police investigations reconstructed the events, determining that Ennakhali had gone to Khaidar’s home and violently attacked her with punches, kicks and stab wounds after she had decided to definitively end their relationship.

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The victim’s condition was immediately critical, and 118 rescuers rushed her to Maggiore Hospital. She spent a month in the intensive care unit before being transferred to a private clinic, where she passed away after a long period of agony.

A Swiss-Tunisian scholar and political Islam activist, Saïda Keller-Messahli, addressed the topic of femicide and immigration from Middle Eastern and North African countries earlier this year. After Switzerland reported a surge in domestic murders, with 15 femicides recorded in the first half of 2025, she wrote in a commentary for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that offenders disproportionately often come from Muslim countries and that the role of Islam in shaping attitudes toward women must be openly acknowledged.

“Reports of men killing their wives, ex-partners, or daughters because they don’t behave as they wish are increasing,” she noted.

She cited research by forensic scientist Frank Urbaniok showing that Afghans are reported for serious violent crimes five times more often than Swiss citizens, Moroccans eight times more often, and Tunisians nine times more often.

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“The disproportionate crime rate has a lot to do with cultural influences. It is about how violence is dealt with, the image of women, or the role of the rule of law in these countries,” Urbaniok told the same newspaper in April.