ROME - Italian police have arrested four men in connection with an alleged gang rape of two British girls.
The rape reportedly took place on Monday night at a house party in Marconia di Pisticci, a town of about 8,000 people in the Basilicata province of Matera, southern Italy.
The pair were treated in hospital after reportedly being raped, punched and kicked by a group of eight boys who had gatecrashed the party, Police said in a statement: ‘
On the night between 7-8 September, in Marconia di Pisticci, sexual violence was committed against two foreign minors who were at a party in a villa.
‘The investigative unit of Matera police headquarters has begun investigations in coordination with the public prosecutor’s office.’
The arrested men, aged between 19 and 23, have been described in local media reports as ‘well known bullies and thugs’.
Their arrests and custody were ordered by the Matera prosecutor, Angelo Onorati, owing to the ‘brutality, severity and savagery of the violence committed, in devious ways, that could be repeated against other women’. (FA)