Carabinieri and local police investigate the images from the cameras, but the coverage of the mini car's license plate makes identification work complicated. There were 6 cases reported between 4 and 5 October
The investigations carried out by the carabinieri of the provincial command of Rome and the local police continue, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Ambrogio Cassiani, in an attempt to put a face to the attackers of the actor Davide Iacopini, hospitalized in very serious conditions and with a reserved prognosis at the San Camillo hospital. The new investigative development is linked to the complaint of a man who presented himself to the investigators on Friday to report the theft of his car, a black minicar. The same color and type of vehicle in which the two attackers sowed panic in the streets between Monteverde Vecchio and Testaccio. Those investigating will now have to carry out a series of checks in light of what was put in black and white by the owner of the stolen minicar.
Summit in the prosecutor's office
Meanwhile, on Friday 9 October there was a meeting at the prosecutor's office between investigators and magistrates but from what we learn from investigative sources the circle around the two young people, perhaps minors, who pushed the actor onto the pavement in the Monteverde neighborhood on the night of 5 October last while he was on a scooter has not yet closed.
Few certainties
At the moment, there are few certainties. It is known that the two young people were traveling in a black mini car, perhaps electric - the investigators hypothesized - based on the fact that the witnesses to the event would not have heard the noise of the car as it arrived. But this remains only a hypothesis, therefore. The hypothesis also remains in the balance - which initially emerged and has already been ruled out by some of the investigators - that it may have been a social challenge, also because the analysis of social networks by the investigators has not led, so far, to obtaining any confirmation. Furthermore, there is no identikit of the attackers. The only detail on the physical appearance of one of the attackers (blond with long hair) was provided by the sister of a man who was passing through Rome and who lives in France, who told the program Chi l'ha Visto that her brother was attacked the same night as the one in Iacopini, in similar ways, while he was on his bicycle near Testaccio.
The other similar cases
In this case we are waiting for the man to return to Italy for the formalization of the complaint, but four have already been filed on the desk of the Carabinieri at the Monteverde station: in addition to the episode involving Iacopini for which action was taken automatically given the seriousness of the fact, in fact, between 4 and 5 October there were six episodes of this type. The latest victim of the "minicar gang" to have reported yesterday is a 67-year-old retired professor, who on the evening of October 4 was hit in Viale dei Quattro Venti by a plastic stick. "I was walking and someone hit me in the side with a stick", the man told the police who are currently searching the area between Colli Portuensi, Testaccio, Monteverde and the Janiculum. It is in fact in this area that all the attacks occurred and, therefore, those investigating are examining the footage from the cameras present. However, the identification of those responsible is made particularly complicated by the covering of the minicar's license plate with a black rubber band, while the only certain element that emerged about the car is that it has a noticeable dent on the front right.
