MILAN. Sexual violence would have matured in the context of the nightlife that revolves around the Columns of San Lorenzo. Central area of Milan, very popular with very young people and often ended up in the headlines of the newspapers for episodes of drug dealing, fights and some clashes with police and carabinieri.
The alleged victim is a barely legal student who in May agreed to accompany a friend to a private party in a room of a bed and breakfast that two young foreigners, aged between 20 and 30, had rented for one night. As soon as the two guests arrived, the situation seemed to be under control, at least according to what the two boys later told the agents of the Central Police Station who are conducting the investigations. So much so that the girl’s friend has gone away to buy something to eat or maybe more alcohol. When he returned, however, he found the 18-year-old naked and drunk and began to worry. She immediately requested the intervention of a 118 ambulance and the doctors confirmed that the girl had suffered sexual abuse.
After the complaint, investigations were initiated coordinated by the prosecutor Pasquale Addesso who in early August requested and obtained a precautionary measure in prison for both alleged rapists. It arrived to them thanks to the testimony of the victim’s friend, who knew the two foreigners better than her, the false documents used by the two to book the hotel room and the photographic recognition that the 18-year-old took. But the order signed by the investigating judge Manuela Scudieri reached only one of the two suspects, currently in prison. The other, who had understood that he was being hunted, had in the meantime fled and is still a fugitive. Also for this reason, the investigators do not want to reveal any more elements on the investigations that are underway.
Their fear, and that of the prosecutor’s office, is that, given the context in which the alleged violence has matured, this is not an isolated case. The same friend of the girl would have said that the two foreigners often rented bed and breakfast rooms in that period in which they invited girls to drink and have fun. A hypothesis to which, however, at least for the moment, no confirmation would have been found.