A man was forced to watch as three migrants smashed into his car before attacking and raping his 18-year-old fiancée in Italy, according to reports.
The couple are said to have parked their car near Tor Tre Teoste in eastern Rome on October 25 when they were suddenly approached by a group of men who began by attacking their car.
The pair, who were said to be naked at the time of the incident, were allegedly then dragged out of the car and onto the street by the men, who smashed their way into the vehicle.
The man, 24, is said to have been pulled out first as the woman scrambled for an item of clothing.
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He then told police that the woman was dragged a short distance away, while he remained restrained by two of the attackers.
While he screamed for help, begging the men to stop, his fiancée was allegedly sexually abused in front of his eyes.
All three alleged perpetrators fled the scene after the attack.
The Italian couple immediately filed a police report, with the authorities noting the pair were "terrified and confused".
The alleged attack took place in a quiet corner or the Tor Tre Teoste park
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Three Moroccan men have been arrested on charges of gang rape and robbery.
Two were found by officers from Rome’s Flying Squad unit and captured merely days after the attack. These arrests were kept quiet while they continued gathering evidence, the police said.
The third was eventually tracked down to Venice just a few days ago.
Fingerprints recovered from the shattered car window match the men who have been arrested, investigators confirmed.
Despite this, a detective has said that the "investigation isn't closed".
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Officers have confirmed they are looking for other suspects, suggesting there could have been up to five attackers involved.
They believe the attack began as a robbery, due to the couple's personal items being stolen.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has previously discussed the dangers of illegal migration to crime rates, particularly an increase in rape cases.
"Now I will be called racist, but there is a higher incidence, unfortunately, in cases of sexual violence, by immigrants, especially illegal ones," Ms Meloni said in 2024.
She also said criticism against her comes from the "degeneration of those who have nothing" because she pointed out the reality of the situation.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has previously linked an increase in sexual assault cases to the influx of illegal migration
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Before she was elected Prime Minister, in August 2022, Ms Meloni shared a blurred video on Twitter of an asylum seeker from Guinea allegedly raping a 55-year-old Ukrainian woman on the streets of the Italian city Piacenza.
The post included the victim's extremely audible cries for help, and was part of her campaign to "secure the cities" of Italy.
"One cannot remain silent in the face of this atrocious episode of sexual violence against a Ukrainian woman carried out in daytime in Piacenza by an asylum seeker," she said.
It follows a recent string of sexual assaults in the country.
In an eerily similar incident back in 2024, an alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl took place in front of her boyfriend in a public park in the Sicilian city of Catania.
The seven suspected perpetrators were all Egyptian migrants, with three of them being under the age of 18, Catania police confirmed at the time.
In another case in October of that year, an asylum seeker was alleged to have impregnated a 10-year-old girl after he raped her.
The 28-year-old migrant from Bangladesh is said to have attacked the girl at a migrant centre in Lombardy.
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