Overview
- Officers intercepted a van in a Paternò square after a victim phoned her sister, who used a localization app and relayed the memorized license plate.
- Three Moroccan men aged 21, 22 and 24 were arrested in flagrante and identified as irregular on Italian territory.
- A judge validated the arrests and ordered pretrial detention at Catania’s Piazza Lanza prison.
- Investigators report that a third assailant forced the women to take cocaine during the ordeal, an allegation under inquiry.
- The two tourists underwent hospital examinations and subsequently filed formal complaints.