Overview
- The five detentions announced Monday followed a review of security video from Piazza Fontana in Taranto.
- Investigators say a 15-year-old delivered the fatal blows with a knife or screwdriver and has confessed, according to the charging order.
- The 35-year-old Malian worker, Bakari Sako, was surrounded, beaten, and stabbed at dawn on Saturday while biking to catch his ride to fields near Massafra.
- Authorities are assessing whether racial hatred played a role after video shows the group also harassing another immigrant shortly before the attack.
- The adult suspect is identified as Fabio Sale, 20, while four detained youths aged 15 to 16 fall under the juvenile prosecutor, and local groups are aiding Sako’s family with repatriation of his body.