Police connected work successful Piazza del Duomo
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A British teen has been threatened with rape aft being mobbed and groped by 30 men successful Italy.
The victim, 19, was celebrating the New Year with 2 antheral friends from England and a radical of six Belgian students met successful Milan.
They headed to the Piazza del Duomo for fireworks but her blessed nighttime turned into a heinous enactment attack, according to reports.
She describes being “grabbed and pulled back” arsenic she passed done a engaged assemblage surrounded by astir 30 men she didn’t know.
The pistillate told MailOnline: “They held my arms, my hands. I couldn’t support myself” earlier being groped “while different tried to propulsion up my dress”.
She added: “I was struggling to get free, and they were enjoying my distress.”
Talking to Belgian media, she said: “I americium broken-hearted to person to combat this conflict astatine the precise opening of my big life.”
Italian media reported astatine the clip that the men had been identified lone arsenic being second-generation North African men.
The victim, a assemblage pupil successful bluish England, said she wanted to archer her communicative to “dispel immoderate of the disinformation being shared online and guarantee [she] is heard”.
But the tourer was met with “kindness” by locals who helped her radical locomotion location aft the incident.
After returning to the UK, the teen is successful the process of filing a ineligible ailment with the Italian embassy successful London.
Investigators are besides presently speaking to different women to recognize the afloat “scale” of the attack.