The fourth man suspected in the
gang rape and murder of Desirée Mariottini, a Gambian, was
arrested Friday in Foggia.
Investigators said they were trying to establish what role he
had in the death of the 16-year-old from Cisterna di Latina in
Rome's San Lorenzo district last week.
Two Senegalese drug pushers and a Nigerian man have already
been arrested in the case.
The Desirée case is no excuse for vigilante patrols in the
drug-ridden and bohemian Roman district, Rome Mayor Virginia
Raggi said Friday.
"Vigilante patrols are no use, but things like the control of
the neighbourhood, which we are already trialling," she said.
"A choral activity which hinges on citizens who supply
information to support police," she said.
"I oppose all types of vision proposing the use of
indiscriminate private force to solve public-order and social
issues".
Earlier this week Raggi banned alcohol from the streets of
San Lorenzo from nine o'clock at night.
Lower House Speaker Roberto Fico meanwhile said "no to the
bulldozers" invoked by hardline anti-migrant Interior Minister
Matteo Salvini, "but love and social cohesion".
Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede said the government would
weigh a new decree on violence against women.
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