“I didn’t touch that girl.” He denied the accusations during the interrogation to validate the arrest, one of the two alleged attackers on New Year’s Eve in the Cathedral. Eighteen years old, of Egyptian origins, he has lived in Milan for two years, and is accused of having taken part in the attack of the 19 year old near Mc Donalds, the young man would have explained that he had reached friends in the center of Milan to celebrate, that he had seen some young people clashing, having seen the victim but not having participated in the violence. And while his defender, Jacopo Viola, has already asked for house arrest for him, the investigating judge Raffaella Mascarino will not rule on the validation of the arrest until Friday. The interrogation to validate the second stopped by the agents of the Milan Mobile Squad will soon take place in front of the Turin investigating judge.
New Year’s Eve in Milan: girls harassed in the crowd in Piazza Duomo
The two boys are part of the group of eighteen searches yesterday morning because they were identified in the videos of the three attacks that would have occurred in the center on the night of December 31st. The investigations and the ratings of the Milanese magistrates who are reconstructing the evening of violence go on relentlessly. The alleged victims were heard in the prosecutor’s office, most of them in streaming, until late yesterday evening, by the deputy prosecutor Letizia Mannella and by the prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo.
To identify the eighteen young people who were searched yesterday, looking for clothes worn that evening and other traces of their presence in the square, the Sari facial identification software was used and the results compared with printouts, telephone cells and posts left on social networks. Of the 18 young people, between the ages of 15 and 21, 9 left from Turin, Bergamo and the other from Rozzano. Groups that did not even know each other and who met in the Cathedral. The charges hypothesized for various reasons are those of group sexual violence, injury, robbery and theft.