Poland seeks extradiction from Italy of 16-year-old Nigerian, Congolese and Moroccan nationals for gang rape of tourist(Photos)

Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki on Monday September 4, said the country will seek the extradition from Italy of the four suspects including a Nigerian teenager in the gang rape of a Polish tourist on a beach in the Italian resort of Rimini.

Jaki said that the four should face a very severe punishment to discourage others from committing such crimes.

The suspects are a 20-year-old Congolese asylum-seeker, two Moroccan brothers, aged 15 and 17, who were born in Italy and a 16-year-old Nigerian reportedly born in Italy.

They are being held in Italy. Polish authorities have opened their own investigation into the attack. The suspects are also accused of also beating the Polish woman’s partner unconscious and robbing them.

The four are also alleged to have raped a Peruvian woman on the same night in a separate incident. It’s not immediately clear if Italy would agree to extradition.

“I don’t want to jump to conclusions now,” Jaki told state Radio.

Jaki said the four, if found guilty, should “face very high punishment as an example, because the punishment should be preventive and make others think seven times before they try to commit such a crime.”

According to Italian media, all four have denied any role in the attack, but reports in Poland say a watch belonging to the partner of the raped Pole was found on the Congolese suspect.

Cristina Ugolini, the head of a center assisting migrants in Pesaro, where the Congolese suspect was assigned, told Sky TG24 TV he had been granted “humanitarian protection” in September 2016 and attended the center until April 2017, without providing any cause for alarm.

Source: AP