Searches taken at dawn, between Milan and Turin: the state police, coordinated by the Milan prosecutor’s office and the prosecutor’s office for minors, entered the home of 18 people: they are 15 just of age, three minors, the youngest is 15 years old and the largest 21. They are accused of being the pack – or at least part of the pack – responsible for the sexual assaults that took place on New Year’s Eve in Piazza Duomo in Milan. Aggressions have also become a political issue, with accusations directed at the management of the square and the mayor, and social, given that many of the young people involved are second generation Italians.
New Year’s Eve case, the nine violence in Piazza Duomo: some of the pack have already been identified
by Ilaria Carra, Luca De Vito
The meticulous investigation activity, immediately undertaken by the agents of the Milan Mobile Squad and the Central Commissariat, made it possible to ascertain three different episodes of violence that night against nine girls present in the square for the celebrations.
First the videos shot on social media in which the attacks on some of the victims were seen – nine girls who have come forward so far – then those of the surveillance cameras in the square – with the use thanks to the scientific police of the regional cabinet of software for facial recognition – listening to various witnesses and the victims themselves and, finally, on the analysis of the various social networks: so the police
led by the manager Marco Calì, coordinated by the public prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo and by the deputy prosecutor Letizia Mannella, came to identify the 18, both foreigners and Italians of North African origins, who, for various reasons, are believed to have participated in the New Year’s raids.
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The searches, which involved the cities of Milan and Turin, also saw the participation of policemen from the Milanese Judicial Police Section, the Mobile Squad of the Turin Police Headquarters and the Lombardy and Piedmont Crime Prevention Departments.