Overview
- Police say the 32-year-old Colombian tourist was lured from a restaurant near Termini, taken into a van and held in an abandoned building in Tor Cervara for about 72 hours before she escaped and was found by a passerby.
- Doctors at Casilino Hospital placed the woman in a specialist violence programme, documented injuries and an altered state consistent with being drugged, and alerted investigators who began forensic work.
- Officers from the Flying Squad led a raid on the Via Cesare Tallone site that identified 22 non-EU occupants, arrested five men and charged them with aggravated gang rape for exploiting the victim's defenselessness.
- Police have named the five suspects as Saidykhan Lamin, Karamba Kanteh, Harouna Traore, Isibor Wisdom and Paul Nwabueze and have issued expulsion orders for 11 other occupants who were sent to pre-removal detention centres.
- Investigators continue to search for at least three more people linked to the case — the man who lured the victim, the transporter and the owners of the shack — as the criminal probe and administrative immigration actions proceed.