Overview
- Following Friday’s hearing, a 15-year-old admitted stabbing Bakari Sako and said he acted because he feared for his friends, adding that he was deeply sorry.
- Juvenile and ordinary court judges declined to validate the arrests yet ordered pretrial custody, covering four minors and two young adults accused of joint voluntary homicide.
- Authorities are scrutinizing Bar Fontana, placing its owner under investigation for aiding a 22-year-old suspect and suspending the bar’s license for 60 days on public-order grounds.
- Investigators lean on security footage and recorded audio and have set a May 19 forensic review of the bar’s DVR and seized phones to extract and analyze the files.
- Reconstruction from video shows the group confronted Sako in Piazza Fontana, chased him into the bar, and after the stabbing some youths wrongly said he was pretending, while the victim’s family has raised concerns about a racial motive that prosecutors have not charged.