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A large demonstration was held outside a subway station in a Rome suburb on Wednesday evening to express solidarity with a female student who was raped there on Saturday night and to call for action from authorities.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Italian woman reported that she had just exited the Jonio metro station, in the northeast Tufello district, when she was attacked and held down by two men while a third man raped her on the street.<\/p>\n
The victim reportedly described her attackers as north African and said they fled the scene on foot after the assault.<\/p>\n
The student subsequently went to the Sandro Pertini hospital where medical staff raised the alarm with authorities.<\/p>\n
A police investigation is underway in an attempt to identify the three assailants who were still at large on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Investigators are looking into whether the men followed the woman from the metro train or if the encounter happened randomly outside the station.<\/p>\n
The incident, one of several recent high-profile cases to have occurred in Rome, has prompted a public outcry.<\/p>\n
In August a 60-year-old Italian woman taking her dog for an early morning walk was raped in Tor Tre Teste Park in the eastern Alessandrino suburb.<\/p>\n
Last month, in the same park, a 20-year-old Italian woman was gang raped, while her boyfriend was forced to watch.<\/p>\n
Women protesting at the scene of the brutal assault outside Jonio station voiced their anger and fear, while locals pointed to poorly lit streets in the vicinity.<\/p>\n
The case has also sparked a political controversy in the capital, with calls on the city’s centre-left mayor Roberto Gualtieri to take action.<\/p>\n
Luisa Regimenti, Rome secretary of the centre-right Forza Italia party, said: “We hope that Mayor Gualtieri and the left-wing majority, generally reluctant to acknowledge the problem, will put security at the top of their agenda.”<\/p>\n
Rachele Mussolini, also Forza Italia, called on Gualtieri to use Jubilee and PNNR funds to install video surveillance systems outside all of the city’s subway stations.<\/p>\n
Valeria Baglio, group leader of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) in the city assembly, called on the government to “allocate greater resources for nighttime police patrols”, adding: “Only by combining prevention with the deterrent of the physical presence of law enforcement will we be able to address the problem.<\/p>\n
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