Overview
- Police say the episode began on May 19 when a 32‑year‑old Colombian woman was approached outside a restaurant, forced into a van and taken to an abandoned building on via Cesare Tallone where she was held for about three days.
- Investigators report the woman was repeatedly assaulted while allegedly given narcotics that reduced her ability to resist, and she escaped semi‑naked to seek help from a passerby who called emergency services.
- Emergency doctors at Policlinico Casilino documented clear signs of violence and a state of alteration consistent with drug intake, findings that triggered the criminal probe led by the IV Section of the Squadra Mobile and the Rome prosecutor.
- A police raid of the complex identified 22 non‑EU irregular occupants, 11 of whom received expulsion orders and are being held in Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio in Ponte Galeria, Palazzo San Gervasio and Bari.
- Five men were placed in 'fermo di indiziato di delitto' after the victim identified them in a photographic lineup and prosecutors are pursuing further inquiries into deprivation of liberty, theft of the victim's documents and other related charges.