A 35-year-old man, of Gambian nationality, was traced and arrested as a suspect for aggravated sexual assault and grievous personal injury following the incident. brutal attack suffered yesterday by a woman at dawn in the Cajello district of Gallarate. The arrest was carried out by Carabinieri from the operational and mobile radio unit of the Gallarate company, after an extensive investigation.
That man he hid in a chest of drawers, pretending he was not at home. The 35-year-old man, who was still wearing the same clothes captured on camera, was immediately taken to the Largo Verrotti barracks. Thanks to further investigation, the victim’s cellphone was found inside private property along the escape route, not far from the suspect’s house.
The victim, who was temporarily entrusted to the care of doctors at the Sant’Antonio Abate Hospital in Gallarate, received an initial prognosis of 20 days. The woman had been rescued by a passerby, and the police, thanks to police scientific findings, were able to accurately reconstruct the phase of the attack in which the perpetrator also lost his cell phone, which was found and confiscated. The man, who surprised the victim from behind while she was walking on the sidewalk to go to work, after severely hitting and beating her, dragged her behind a flower hedge in a public parking lot, where the violence occurred.. After that, he fled on foot while carrying the woman’s cell phone. The valuable information provided by a witness, combined with a comprehensive analysis of all public and private video surveillance systems in the vicinity, made it possible to reconstruct the perpetrator’s escape route and locate his home.
In the barracks, during interrogation in the presence of the prosecutor on duty, Roberto Bonfanti, the suspect, when confronted with responsibility, makes a full confession. The arrested person was then taken to Busto Arsizio Prison to await an interrogation warrant.
