BOLZANO. «We must mobilize, we must take to the streets: the victim and his family must feel the closeness of the entire community. We cannot be indignant and then pretend nothing happened as happened in August, after the rape of a 17-year-old girl, lured in Piazza Domenicani. We need to give a strong signal as a citizen.” Casanova is in shock, but the entire city is deeply shaken by the violence that took place on Friday evening: the victim was a 14-year-old girl, stopped at the bus shelter, in via Andreina Emeri.
A 40-year-old Pakistani man arrested: with no criminal record – however, there was an old complaint against him for sexual acts on a minor, which never became a conviction – in possession of a regular residence permit issued by the Varese police headquarters. In Italy for at least twenty years. Employed in catering first in Varese, then in Verona. He had moved to Bolzano a month ago.
The mayor Renzo Caramaschialready in the morning, spoke with the police commissioner Paolo Sartori and with the prefect Vito Cusumano. «A meeting of the Order and Security Committee will be held shortly – assures the mayor», but today (Monday 28 October) a meeting was called extraordinary meeting of the council in Casanova. Objective: to understand how we can intervene to increase safety.
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