Two people were arrested as part of the investigation coordinated by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office and conducted by the Mobile Squad on the assaults and violence against at least nine women that took place on New Year's Eve in Milan, in Piazza Duomo.
The investigations of the investigators went on for days, using the footage made with smartphones by some present and those of video surveillance cameras. Yesterday 18 young people believed to be the perpetrators of the violence were searched.
The two arrested, a 21-year-old and an 18-year-old accused of "group sexual violence" and "robbery" also thanks to the discovery of the clothes worn that very evening, allegedly attempted to flee and there are serious indications "of alleged sexual violence against them. complete, accompanied by robberies ". In particular, the two boys, for various reasons, are challenged two of the three episodes at the center of the investigation: the attack on the 19-year-old and a friend of hers on the corner with via Mazzini (documented in a first video that was online); the abuses against 4 girls near the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.
The 21-year-old was stopped in Turin and the 18-year-old in Milan. The victims of the attacks (nine in total, including two Germans) were heard yesterday until late in the evening in the Prosecutor's Office or by videoconference and the arrests were issued tonight, as clarified by Targetti, "after yesterday's searches and after a series of feedback also arrived by hearing "the young women. The stops must be validated, one by the investigating judge in Turin and the other by the investigating judge in Milan. The judges will also have to decide on requests for precautionary measures in prison.
(Unioneonline / D)