The Italian Police arrested on Friday a fourth suspect in the gang rape and murder of a girl of sixteen years, Desiree Mariottini, in an abandoned building in Rome, a case that has caused uproar in the country.

on Thursday, police arrested two senegalese of 26 and 43 years without legal documents to reside in Italy, and after a third suspect, a nigerian man of 46 with a residence permit in the Italian capital on humanitarian grounds, informed sources from the Ministry of Interior.

the minister of The Interior, Matteo Salvini, confirmed today the arrest of a fourth person who only said that it is “a to be an illegal immigrant. I prison hard and go home!”.

local media advance that it is a gambian and has been located by the police in the city of Foggia, in the Apulia region (south), in the vicinity of a centre for immigrants, allegedly fleeing from Rome when she found she was being chased.

The researchers are now trying to determine if there were more subjects involved, and what role it played each one of those already arrested in the murder of Desiree Mariottini.

The young man, according to the investigation, was drugged to unconsciousness and raped by a group of men in one of the abandoned buildings of the roman quarter of San Lorenzo, where he died on the night of the 19th of October. I was 16 years old, was the Tank of Latina, some 50 kilometres south of Rome, and since last August went to the Service for the Drogadicciones of the health care system the Italian.

class=”icon-foto_16_g”> Altar in remembrance of Desiree MariottinI. ALBERTO PIZZOLIAFP

“I have asked the prosecutor of the Republic which employs an iron hand” against the occupations of buildings, he said, to warn that will be undertaken for the eviction due to the “dangerousness” of these cases of illegal occupations.

Before, Salvini held a meeting in the prefecture of Rome with the mayor of the capital, Virginia Raggi, and the general prosecutor, Giuseppe Pignatone, among other authorities, to address, among others, the case of the young Desiree Mariottini.

“we’re Going to ask for accounts that have been managed poorly Rome for years,” said Salvini, who called for citizens to report “situations of risk”.

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