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December 10, 2021 The four boys from Catania arrested by the Carabinieri of the Gravina di Catania company are 20 and 21 years old. The charges are sexual and group violence, illicit dissemination of sexually explicit images or videos, and extortion. The four are responsible for the abuse of a twenty-year-old woman, who have filmed and disseminated the scenes of violence with a mobile phone. The investigation, which started in June by the soldiers of the Gravina station in Catania, verified the facts committed by the four boys recognized as perpetrators of repeated sexual offenses against a 20-year-old girl. Also involved is a child under 16 for whom the public prosecutor's office for minors is proceeding.



The violence allegedly took place between November 2019 and May 2021, uncovered the pandora box, the victim's complaint that he decided to tell after the last violence in May.



The reports took place inside a garage of one of the suspects, while he was, in spite of himself, filmed with his cell phone in a video by one of the boys of the pack.

Video deleted not before having spread it on a messaging application on that of another suspect.

From the stories a 'sick' relationship emerged between the victim and the boy, her boyfriend, who in parallel had a further romantic relationship with another twenty-year-old, unaware of the strange 'emotional relationship' of her boyfriend.