Desirée, a 16-year-old girl from the city of Cisterna di Latina, was found dead on October 19 in an abandoned building on via dei lucani in Rome's San lorenzo district. After the police investigation and the testimony provided by the witnesses, the truth of the case gradually surfaced. At present, 6 suspects have been investigated by the police.
According to the Italian "Courier" and Today's Network, at 4 a.m. on October 19, the police rushed to the scene after receiving an anonymous police call and found a woman lying in an abandoned building without any documents around her. The call was most likely made in a public telephone booth, and the police subsequently launched an investigation.
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The crime occurred on via dei lucani in the San lorenzo district of Rome, which, due to its central location and proximity to the university, has become a place for young people to drink and have a night out at night. It is only 1 km from Piazza Vittorio, the Chinese quarter of Rome. The police then blocked the building where the crime occurred, began to collect clues, and questioned the people who frequented the building one by one.
The location where desirée was killed.
Key testimony
"The girl was supposed to have died on Thursday, 18th." A young Senegalese man became a key witness for the police and was interviewed by television.
"I'm from Senegal. I was there that night, and after she died, I went to the scene. "I got there after midnight, and there were 6 or 7 people in the building, Africans and Arabs. "When he went in, he saw a girl lying on the bed, covered by a blanket, and another girl screaming.
"There's an Italian girl who should be Roman, because she speaks Roman." According to him, the girl found that desirée had lost consciousness and screamed: "This girl in Chistelna is probably dead!" The screaming girl said desirée had been drugged and raped by at least 3 or 4 people.
An autopsy confirmed the testimony
An autopsy by the forensic doctor confirmed the witness's testimony. The girl did experience violent sexual assault by the group, and her blood was found to contain drugs, and the key witness of the police will also provide the names of those involved in the incident that night.
Desirée, 16, who lives with her mother and a sister in Cisterna, called her grandmother the night before the crime saying she would sleep at a friend's house and went to Rome, never to return home. When the family found out that she had not returned home, they began to worry and immediately called the police, and a few hours later they found the girl's body.
Salvini: The government will have a special eviction plan
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Salvini said about the case today (24th): "Have you seen the news that the 16-year-old girl was killed in the abandoned building of San Lorenzo? I'm going to go over today, it's the center of Rome, and there can't be a black hole. ”
After the incident, flowers and candles were placed at the gate of the abandoned building, and the door was painted with spray paint: "Justice for desirée." San Lorenzo will not forget you. Others shouted, "You [the government] can't intervene until someone dies!" ”
On the afternoon of the 24th, Salvini came to the scene of the incident amid protest and applause. "I'll be back with a bulldozer." He said the illegal occupation and violence of houses in Rome was unacceptable and that the government would draw up a special eviction and clearance plan in the future.
At the same time, it was revealed that the Ministry of the Interior decided to increase the number of Police Officers and Gendarmerie in Rome in the coming months.
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(Editor: Wen Yuan)