Rome, June 19, 2021 – Two life sentences and two other convictions at 27 years and 24 years and six months. This is the sentence of the judges of the III section of the court of assizes of Rome regarding the trial for the murder of Desirée Mariottini, the 16-year-old from Cisterna di Latina found lifeless on 19 October 2018 in an abandoned building in via dei Lucani, in the Roman district of San Lorenzo. One of the four convicted immediately returns to freedom due to the expiry of the terms of pre-trial detention.
The sentence
The judges, after over nine hours of council chamber, they sentenced to life imprisonment Mamadou Gara e Yussef Salia., while they imposed 27 years in prison on Alinno China and 24 years and six months a Brian Minthe. The accusations against them range, depending on the position, from voluntary murder to aggravated sexual violence, to the transfer of drugs to minors. The prosecutor had asked for the maximum sentence, life imprisonment, for all four defendants.
Convicted and immediately free
One of the four convicted of the murder of Desirée Mariottini returns free due to the expiry of the terms of pre-trial detention. It is about Brian Minthe sentenced tonight to 24 years and six months in prison.
The mother’s outburst
The rant of Barbara Mariottini, Desirée’s mother: “One of the condemned returns free due to deadline it wasn’t supposed to happen. I was expecting a completely different sentence, I was expecting life sentence for all. I’m very angry: I didn’t have justice. She was a 16-year-old girl … They left her after 4 hours of agony “.
“My family and I – said the mother of the sixteen year old when the four foreigners were sent for trial – we were worried, we took care of her every day, we took her to a psychologist. At the end of July we understood that he was taking drugs. Desirée was afraid when it came to community. “The last memory?” She woke up, was at home with me and was wearing makeup. The eyes, the smile, I have many beautiful memories. By boat, at the Vasco concert, at the cinema, when we went around Latina. But I know I can’t have others. ”
The curse in the courtroom
“Damn you, may you burn in hell.” This is the sentence of a woman, present in the courtroom, against the 4 convicts in the trial for the murder of Desirée Mariottini. In the classroom there were the mother by Desirée Mariottini, Barbara, who wore a white T-shirt with the photo of her daughter, in addition to other family and friends of the 16-year-old killed.
What killed Desirée
From the investigation papers it emerged that the defendants had assured the girl, who was in withdrawal symptoms, that that mix of substances also composed of tranquilizers and pills was nothing more than methadone. But the “proved deadly” mixture consisted of psychotropic which resulted in the loss of “his ability to react” allowing the suspects to be able to carry out the rape in a dilapidated building in the heart of the historic Roman district.
The words of the Gip
In the order with which the investigating judge ordered the prison it was stated that the group acted “with obstinacy, cruelty and ease“showing a” very high danger and having had no qualms “in completing it rape and murder. Some testimonies are also cited in the provision. “Better that she dies than us in jail“: it is the shocking sentence that according to some texts three of the four accused would have pronounced. The suspects also” prevented them from calling for help “Desirée. the Dna of the herd.
The stages of the story
19 October 2018 – Desiree’s lifeless body is found in the night
25 October 2018 – First arrests by policemen from the Rome mobile squad and the San Lorenzo police station. These are the Senegalese Mamadou Gara and Brian Minteh. The Nigerian Alinno Chima and the Ghanaian Yusif Salia also end up in handcuffs.
June 21, 2019 – The Rome public prosecutor closes the investigations and challenges the four of them with the crime of complicity in voluntary homicide, group sexual violence and the transfer and administration of drugs to a minor. According to the deputy prosecutor Maria Monteleone and the prosecutor Stefano Pizza, the four Africans allegedly abused the girl in turn after making her take a mix of drugs that resulted in her death.
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