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Friday, October 18, 2019

IN LOVING MEMORY OF DESIREE MARIOTTINI (DIED: OCTOBER 18, 2018)


We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will honor and remember 16-year-old Desirée Mariottini on October 18 every year.  

We, the comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, will make her one of The 82 murdered children of Unit 1012, where we will not forget her.

Murder of Desirée Mariottini
 
Photograph of Desirée Mariottini, released by police.

Died
18 October 2018, Via Dei Lucani 22 Rome, Lazio, Italy
Cause of death
Respiratory crisis due to drug mix overdose and repeated torture and sexual abuse.
Arrested
Mamadou Gara
Brian Minteh
Alinno Chima
Yusif Salia

Desirée Mariottini was a 16-year-old Italian girl who was last seen on 18 October 2018 and was murdered soon after in Rome, Italy.

Background

Mariottini was born and lived in Cisterna di Latina (Latina) in the region of Lazio.
The San Lorenzo district is a traditionally left-wing neighborhood still scarred by World War II bombings.

Murder and investigation

On 17 October 2018, Mariottini missed the last bus and did not return to her home.

Desirée Mariottini was drugged unconscious and sexually abused in a drug den in the San Lorenzo district in Rome. While Desirèe was unconscious she was abused several times by different people. As reconstructed, she had taken drugs as early as the afternoon of October 18, and died later on the night of 19 October. She was being abused while she was dying. This was shown by the investigations conducted by the police in Rome and by the San Lorenzo police station.

On 25 October two people were arrested for the murder: Mamadou Gara 26 and Brian Minteh 43, both Senegal and living illegally in Italy. Both are accused, along other suspects, of group sexual violence, drug possession and voluntary homicide. The police are looking for at least two other men involved in the murder. The criminals were identified after a series of testimonies and findings made in the building where the body was found.

Later, Alinno Chima, aged 40 from Nigeria was arrested.

On 26 October 2018 a fourth arrest was made, Yusif Salia from Gambia.

None of the arrested had legal documents to reside in Italy.

Autopsy

The autopsy has confirmed that Desirée Mariottini was a virgin before being raped.

Trial

The trial of the four accussed began in October 2019.

Aftermath

Mariottini was buried on Sunday 30 October in Cisterna di Latina in a ceremony attended by hundreds and Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi declared a day of mourning.

Visit by Minister Matteo Salvini at the scene of the crime

On October 24, 2018 interior minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-migration Northern League party, went to the abandoned building where the girl's body was found.

Activists in the traditionally left-wing San Lorenzo district prevented Salvini from placing a rose outside the drug den where the victim was found and accused Salvini of exploiting her death. He returned later in the day unannounced and placed the flowers in front of the gate.


The tragedy of Desirée "must be the last that happens in Italy and in Rome, an abandoned city, the degradation is evident, moral and social, more checks are needed in the city, more men and women of the police are needed, especially at night".

The decision of the mayor of Rome

The Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi decided to proclaim a day of mourning for the city in conjunction with the funeral of Desirée Mariottini. She also declared the intention of city authorities to have the building demolished. In a social media post, she stated that as a mayor, as a woman and the mayor of the city she could not tolerate the thought of this crime and called it an "atrocious crime".

On the evening of 25 October 2018, a spontaneous torch-light procession by the people of Rome San Lorenzo was organized to ask for "justice for Desirée".

Protests against the mayor of Rome

On 27 October 2018, the citizens of Rome protest against the deterioration of the city, in which some areas such as Via Dei Lucani 22 are crumbling and abandoned to carelessness, and, above all, to criminals as drug dealers.


Italy: African migrants charged with drugging, raping, and murdering teenage girl appear in court
By Arthur Lyons

A group of four African migrants appeared in court for the first time this week, facing charges of voluntary homicide, aggravated sexual violence, and distributing illegal drugs to a minor. 

The trial begins a little more than a year after 16-year-old Desirée Mariottini was discovered dead in an abandoned building in Rome’s San Lorenzo district. 

The four defendants, Alinno Chima and Mamadou Gara, Yusef Salia, and Brian Minteh are said to have drugged, gang-raped, left Mariottini to die alone in a drug den in a case that sent shockwaves across the nation, Il Giornale reports.

Several witnesses, mostly homeless drug addicts, confirmed to investigators that they had witnessed the group sexual assault take place. An autopsy confirmed that the 16-year-old girl was a virgin before being raped.

“Our pain can never be calmed,” said Desirée’s grandmother as she left court. “No sentence will ever give us back our Desirée,” she added.

“I am not responsible for the death of this girl, I ask her mother and family for forgiveness and excuse, and I respect their pain,” Yussef Salia told the court.

Witnesses who claim they attempted to contact emergency services but were prevented from doing so by the suspects were also heard from. The next hearing is scheduled for January 15th.

Earlier this year in May, the African migrant drug dealer Innocent Oseghale was found guilty of murdering and dismembering 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro and was sentenced to life in prison.

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