Italy: Transsexual may have been 'silenced'

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Italy: Transsexual may have been 'silenced'

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.4019601818

Rome, 20 Nov. (AKI) - Italian politicians have raised doubts about whether the death of a transsexual prostitute at the centre of a major sex, drugs and extortion scandal was a suicide. The Brazilian prostitute, known as Brenda, was found dead after a fire broke out at her apartment in northern Rome early Friday.

The transsexual was allegedly involved with Piero Marrazzo, who resigned as governor of the Lazio region surrounding the Italian capital, when news of their relationship broke in October.

"Evidently, someone wanted to silence her to prevent her from saying what she knew," said Paolo Ferrero, secretary-general of Italy's Communisty Refoundation Party.